"Compassion and Benignytee": A Reassessment of the Relationship between Canacee and the Falcon in Geoffrey Chaucer's "Squire's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Elmes, Melissa Ridley.
"Compassion and Benignytee": A Reassessment of the Relationship between Canacee and the Falcon in Geoffrey Chaucer's "Squire's Tale."
- Published
- Medieval Feminist Forum 54, no. 1 (2018): 50-64.
- Description
- Argues that the "bond" between Canacee and the falcon in SqT is "grounded in the theme of female friendship" although seen from the "avian perspective"--an "intersectional" approach that "interprets Canacee as avian, rather than the falcon as humanlike." Treats the tale as something of a "sequel" to PF, even while the Squire reveals himself to be "decidedly uncomfortable with women on an individual level."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Squire and His Tale
Parliament of Fowls