Slow Practice as Ethical Aesthetics: The Ecocritical Strategy of Patience in Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Clerk’s Tale."

Author / Editor
Morrison, Susan Signe.

Title
Slow Practice as Ethical Aesthetics: The Ecocritical Strategy of Patience in Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Clerk’s Tale."

Published
Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment 11, no. 2 (2020): 118-27.

Description
Draws on debates about slow cinema to suggest how ClT evokes a "slow eco-aesthetics" with an ethical impact. Based on the notion that medieval pilgrimage texts evoke a slow aesthetic, the strategies of slowness and patience in the tale of Patient Griselda are assessed as fundamentally ecocritical.

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale