Poetry and Animals: Blurring the Boundaries with the Human.
- Author / Editor
- Oerlemans, Onno.
Poetry and Animals: Blurring the Boundaries with the Human.
- Published
- New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.
- Physical Description
- xii, 238 pp.
- Description
- Explores the connection between animals and poetry, arguing for an emphasis on poetry that describes animals. Maintains that poetry's openness to experimentation with language mirrors its depiction of a blurred boundary between the human and the animal. Moves from medieval to postmedieval poetry, connecting poetic depictions of animals from Chaucer to contemporary poets. In particular, focuses on animals in NPT to show what these allegorical depictions can convey about literal animals. Argues that NPT troubles this boundary between human and animal through the desire of Chanticleer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale
Background and General Criticism