Talking Bird and Gentle Heart: Female Homosocial Bonding in Chaucer's Squire's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Schotland, Sara Deutch.
Talking Bird and Gentle Heart: Female Homosocial Bonding in Chaucer's Squire's Tale
- Published
- Albrecht Classen and Marilyn Sandidge, eds. Friendship in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: Explorations of a Fundamental Ethical Discourse (New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2010), pp. 525-41.
- Description
- Canacee's kindness toward the formel eagle shows Chaucer's sympathy for women and appreciation of female friendship. The formel, like other females in Chaucer, has been abused by men--and warns Canacee against them. In creating a painted mew for the falcon (an ekphrasis), Canacee expresses her pity and affection for the injured bird. Their friendship is brief but ideal, crossing apparently formidable borders.
- Alternative Title
- Friendship in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: Explorations of a Fundamental Ethical Discourse.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Squire and His Tale.