Ecofeminist Subjectivities: Chaucer's Talking Birds
- Author / Editor
- Kordecki, Lesley.
Ecofeminist Subjectivities: Chaucer's Talking Birds
- Published
- New York: Palgrave Mcmillan, 2011.
- Physical Description
- xv, 215 pp.
- Series
- The New Middle Ages
- Description
- Assuming a consistent narrative voice across the Chaucer canon, this study treats Chaucer's use of animal, specifically, avian, discourse as a means of exploring subjectivity. The author emphasizes the role of non-humans and women in "challenging identities and preconceptions," noting how investing these speakers with agency works to alter genre and gender assumptions. Chaucer's use of animal speakers reveals "his restless search for an authorial voice." Focuses on HF, PF, SqT, NPT, and ManT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame
- Parliament of Fowls
- Squire and His Tale
- Nun's Priest and His Tale
- Manciple and His Tale