Chaucer's Squire's Tale: Animal Discourse, Women, and Subjectivity
- Author / Editor
- Kordecki, Lesley.
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