Chaucer, Lydgate, and the Half-Heard Nightingale.
- Author / Editor
- Van Dyke, Carolynn.
Chaucer, Lydgate, and the Half-Heard Nightingale.
- Published
- Susan McHugh, Robert McKay, and John Miller, eds. The Palgrave Handbook of Animals and Literature (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), pp. 127-40.
- Description
- Surveys the functions and understanding of the nightingale in myth, literature, music, and sign theory, observing how the bird "inhabits the borders between states of being." Then discusses its roles in John Lydgate's "A Seying of the Nightingale" and in LGW and TC, where the birs's "de-mythification" nevertheless embodies ambiguous "states of being" between "reverie and dream-vision, melody and song, and traditional femininity and biological masculinity."
- Contributor
- McHugh, Susan, ed.
McKay, Robert, ed.
Miller, John, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Palgrave Handbook of Animals and Literature
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