Chaucer's Cuckoo and the Myth of Anthropomorphism
- Author / Editor
- Kordecki, Lesley.
Chaucer's Cuckoo and the Myth of Anthropomorphism
- Published
- Carolynn Van Dyke, ed. Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 249-60.
- Description
- Argues that the cuckoo-merlin dialogue in PF deconstructs the traditional human-animal binary by presenting a "fleeting realization of anthropomorphism gone awry." The cuckoo's "brood parasitism . . . resolves itself into a mode of communal profit" and the poem becomes a "parody of overclassification."
- Alternative Title
- Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls