Building Bridges in Canterbury.
- Author / Editor
- Wright, Sarah Breckenridge.
Building Bridges in Canterbury.
- Published
- In James L. Smith, ed. The Passenger: Medieval Texts and Transits ([Santa Barbara, Calif.]: Punctum, 2017), pp. 93-114.
- Description
- Combines ecocriticism and mobility studies to address the "medieval bridge as an icon of hybridity: a cultural artifact that commingles human/animal movement, architectural stasis, and the natural world (blood, stone, and water)." Then explores how the pilgrimage motif and the "literal and metaphorical bridges" in the frame narrative of CT suggest "an emerging category of geographically-determined identity in the fourteenth century" that is dialectical and "fundamentally hybrid."
- Alternative Title
- The Passenger: Medieval Texts and Transits.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General