Bird Sounds and the Framing of "The Canterbury Tales."

Author / Editor
Halbrooks, John.

Title
Bird Sounds and the Framing of "The Canterbury Tales."

Published
Essays in Medieval Studies 33 (2018): 1-9.

Description
Argues that the birdsong of GP, line 9, and the silencing of the crow in ManT indicate "the permeable animal/human boundary" in CT, evidence of a mutual "soundscape" or a shared "acoustic community." Includes comments on avian and human communication elsewhere in CT.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Manciple and His Tale