In Praise of Animal Laborans, the Laboring Bodies of Chaucer's General Prologue.
- Author / Editor
- Mahdipour, Alireza.
Pirnajmuddin, Hossein.
In Praise of Animal Laborans, the Laboring Bodies of Chaucer's General Prologue.
- Published
- Folia linguistica et litteraria 44 (2023): 253-63.
- Description
- Comments on food-producing labor as a motif in GP (and elsewhere in CT), in contrast with idleness, wealth-seeking, or nonproductive labor, especially among clerics. Associates these concerns with English history and ideological struggle.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales