The Crow's "Cokkow!": Bird Debates and Chaucer's "Manciple’s Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Stanbury, Sarah.
The Crow's "Cokkow!": Bird Debates and Chaucer's "Manciple’s Tale."
- Published
- Valerie B. Johnson and Kara L. McShane, eds. Negotiating Boundaries in Medieval Literature and Culture: Essays on Marginality, Difference, and Reading Practices in Honor of Thomas Hahn (Boston: De Gruyter; Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute, 2022), pp. 265-88.
- Description
- Explicates the "cukkow"/cuckoo/cuckold pun in ManT by identifying the role of the cuckoo (versus the nightingale) in bird-debate poems, analyzed here, particularly in Sir John Clanvowe's "Boke of Cupide." Argues that, by engaging themes of signification, class, and truth-telling, ManT "lobs an attack on the courtly good life of song, poetry, and pleasure," “signaling” the end of the CT and “making that end happen.”
- Alternative Title
- Negotiating Boundaries in Medieval Literature and Culture
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manciple and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations