Reception, Elegy, and Eco-Awareness: Trees in Statius, Boccaccio, and Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Schildgen, Brenda Deen.
Reception, Elegy, and Eco-Awareness: Trees in Statius, Boccaccio, and Chaucer
- Published
- Comparative Literature 65.1 (2013): 85-100.
- Description
- Focuses on the episode of "wood-stripping" that occurs in Statius' :Thebaid" (6.84-117), Boccaccio's "Teseida" (11), and KnT (4.2919-62). While Statius' account is the major model for the others, all versions imply social-political criticism, express nostalgia for a localized landscape, and evoke an emotional response to natural phenomena.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations