'rather be used / than be eaten'? Harry Bailly's Animals and The Nun's Priest's Tale

Author / Editor
Rudd, Gillian.

Title
'rather be used / than be eaten'? Harry Bailly's Animals and The Nun's Priest's Tale

Published
SAC 34 (2012): 325-30.

Description
Comments on Umberto Eco's, Jacques Derrida's, and Marianne Dekoven's contributions to animal studies, and assesses the Host's references to "jade" and "trede-fowl" in NPP and NPE as "prime examples" of the "human habit of appropriating the animal world." Also assesses the chase scene in NPT.

Chaucer Subjects
Nun's Priest and His Tale
Language and Word Studies