"The lytel erthe that here is": Environmental Thought in Chaucer's "Parliament of Fowls."
- Author / Editor
- Crane, Susan.
"The lytel erthe that here is": Environmental Thought in Chaucer's "Parliament of Fowls."
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 39 (2017): 3-29.
- Description
- Argues that PF offers an "innovative model of species uncertainty" that aligns with posthumanist rejection of human specialness. The poem evokes and challenges the dualism of Scipio's dream, offering alternatives in the animism of the tree catalogue and the totemism of the avian hierarchy. None of the three ontologies stands authoritatively and their uncertainties are reinforced by the multisensory details of PF, the performability of the poem's ending, and the antirationalism of the dream vision.
- Alternative Title
- The Presidential Address. The New Chaucer Society. Twentieth International Congress, July 11-14, 2016. Queen Mary University of London, Mile End.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls