Teaching Unstable Animal Identities in Medieval Narrative

Author / Editor
Szell, Timea.

Title
Teaching Unstable Animal Identities in Medieval Narrative

Published
English Language Notes 47.1 (2009): 147-57.

Description
Pedagogical report on how to study animal and human identity in Hebrew Scripture, Ovid, and medieval narrative to acquire the interpretive skills to understand postmodern texts and culture. Animals in the imagery and narrative of KnT enable readers to question categories of the human as unique and to understand the text's "containing and shaping impulses."

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale