Little Nothings: The Squire's Tale and the Ambition of Gadgets
- Author / Editor
- Ingham, Patricia Clare.
Little Nothings: The Squire's Tale and the Ambition of Gadgets
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 31 (2009): 53-80.
- Description
- Reads SqT as Chaucer's exploration of the "double-face of newness." Cambyuskan's encounter with the brass steed is counterpointed by Canacee's communication with the falcon, posing an ambiguous pairing of "creative rationality" and "enchanted desire." This ambiguity reflects the more fundamental fascination of Western medieval romance with understandings of "oriental" Arabia.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Squire and His Tale