The Animal in Allegory: From Chaucer to Gray.
- Author / Editor
- Oerlemans, Onno.
The Animal in Allegory: From Chaucer to Gray.
- Published
- Isle 20.2 (2013): 296-317.
- Description
- Argues that the category of "allegorical animal poems" disguises the fact that such poems "simultaneously hide and reveal the contested nature of the boundary between humans and animals." Comments on fable tradition, the nature of allegory, and various animal poems, including NPT and NPE, for the ways that they draw attention to the characters' "animality" and connect allegorical meanings with "the unstable divide between humans and animals."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale