Chaucer's Squire's Tale: Animal Discourse, Women, and Subjectivity

Author / Editor
Kordecki, Lesley.

Title
Chaucer's Squire's Tale: Animal Discourse, Women, and Subjectivity

Published
Chaucer Review 36 (2002): 277-97.

Description
Various concepts of "otherness" in SqT—oriental setting, magic, non-human speech, female centrality—reflect Chaucer's "reshaping" of Ovidian "transformation" myth. His efforts to enter "into feminized animal subjectivity . . . intertwine with magic." Yet, "the experiment must inevitably fail." Kordecki also comments on ManT and NPT.

Chaucer Subjects
Squire and His Tale
Nun's Priest and His Tale
Manciple and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations