Titlebook: Chaucerian Ecopoetics; Deconstructing Anthr Shawn Normandin Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 Geoffrey Chaucer

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Extending the Struts Framework, ugly narrative’s anti-aesthetic method culminates in Virginia’s decapitation. Like many other Chaucerian texts, the . shifts its attention from nature to human social problems, but the shift does not glorify humanity or justify its separation from nonhumans. The tale’s anti-aesthetic language victi

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Introduction: Chaucer and Ecopoetics,hapter reviews the history of ecopoetics and develops an alternative form of ecopoetics that draws upon the theoretical insights of Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, Timothy Morton, and others. The chapter defends its claims with close readings of William Wordsworth’s “There Was a Boy” and several works by Chaucer: the ., the ., and the ..

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Ecophobia and the , is predominantly irrational in this tale: humans emerge as by far the most violent species, an extravagant threat to nonhuman life. Chaucer’s allegorical description of visual art works arouses fear of nature but also discloses the arbitrariness of such fear. The tale’s puns and play with letters further undermine ecophobic ideology.

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Ruminating on and in the , de Deguileville on Chaucer, whose poem “An ABC”—a translation of Deguileville—resembles the .. The chapter concludes by reading the tale as a prefiguration of some of the rhetorical problems encountered by environmentalists: the Monk’s refusal to meet humanist expectations incurs boredom, hampering his .’s persuasiveness.

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