Reading in the Animal Vernacular: The Bestiary as Lay Genre in Medieval England.
- Author / Editor
- Wong, Jessica.
Reading in the Animal Vernacular: The Bestiary as Lay Genre in Medieval England.
- Published
- Open access Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Illinois, 2017.
Available at https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/99240. Accessed February 6, 2021.
- Description
- Includes discussion of "Chaucer's use of the bestiary to create his character of the Pardoner," relying on "the reader's association of animal features with morality to convey its meaning" and structuring PardPT to incorporate "the generic components of the bestiary, sermon, and exemplum to create something wholly new."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations