Abiding Tides: Oceanic Influences on Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Franklin's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Shields, Rachel Linn.
Abiding Tides: Oceanic Influences on Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Franklin's Tale."
- Published
- Yearbook of English Studies 53 (2024, for 2023): 21-35.
- Description
- Argues that the "tidal influences" in FranT encourage "feminist interpretation" of Dorigen's promise, "identification of an environmentalist sensibility" in the tale, and attention to human subjection "to natural cycles and forces." Furthermore, "tidal patterns" (along with the genre of Breton lai) "may have exerted some influence" in shaping the tale.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale