Avian Provocation: Roosters and Rime Royal in Fifteenth-Century Fable.
- Author / Editor
- Chaganti, Seeta.
Avian Provocation: Roosters and Rime Royal in Fifteenth-Century Fable.
- Published
- Exemplaria 29 (2017): 314-30.
- Description
- Analyzes the "quotidian vocality of the medieval chicken yard" in John Lydgate's and Robert Henryson's versions of the "cock and jewel" fable, focusing on how avian vocality draws attention to the pace and meaning of the rhyme-royal verse form of the poems. Includes comments on Chaucer's "careful onomatopoeic distinctions" among Chauntecleer's "different vocalizations" in NPT, the eagle's vocality in HF, and the rhyme-royal form of Adam.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
Nun's Priest and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
House of Fame
Adam Scriveyn