Chaucerian Ecopoetics: Deconstructing Anthropocentrism in the Canterbury Tales

CONTENTS

1. Introduction: Chaucer and Ecopoetics

1.1  Anthropocentrism, Anthropotropism, Inscription

1.2  Ecopoetics and Ecoaesthetics

1.3  The Ecopoetics of the General Prologue

1. Ecophobia and the Knight's Tale

2.1  Dark Imagining: Ekphrasis and Allegory

2.2  Getting Green: Wordplay in the Knight's Tale

1. Nocturnal Ecologies: Metaphor in the Miller's and the Reeve's Tale

3.1 Metaphor in the Miller's Tale

3.2 Metaphor in the Reeve's Tale

4.      Iterability, Anthropocentrism, and the Franklin's Tale

4.1 Iterability and Rejection

4.2 Improper Literalisms

4.3 Avenging the Rocks

      5.1 Allegorizing Virgin Nature

            5.2 Allegory versus History

            5.3 Inhuman Poetics

6.    Ruminating on and in the Monk's Tale

      6.2 Reading like a Monk

      6.3 Rereading the Monk's Tale

Index