Making the Rocks Disappear: Refocusing Chaucer's Knight's and Franklin's Tales
- Author / Editor
- Rudd, Gillian.
Making the Rocks Disappear: Refocusing Chaucer's Knight's and Franklin's Tales
- Published
- John Parham, ed. The Environmental Tradition in English Literature (Burlington, Vt.: 2002), pp.117-29.
- Description
- Analyzes interactions between humans and nature (animals and environment) "through the lens of ecocriticism," exploring animal metaphors and the treatment of trees in KnT and representations of the sea and rocks in FranT. In KnT humans render nature safe by taming and burning, while FranT challenges masculinist binary thinking by "tacitly acknowledging" that humans "deal less with the fact of the world than with our conceptions or preconceptions of it."
- Contributor
- Parham, John, ed.
- Alternative Title
- The Environmental Tradition in English Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale
- Franklin and His Tale