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"For decades now Kordecki has been teaching us that Chaucer is also usefully understood as a, so to speak, poet-avian, a writer instructed by, and who, in turn, shares with his readers, the beauty and the habits and the lore of those creatures, from one perspective, freest of all Nature s creatures, birds, who soar above us, nest among us (and, yes, also besplatter our windshields), representing to us the very air of liberty as they also confront us, as they did Chaucer, with voices we hardly can merely ventriloquize - it is good now to have all of Kordecki's studies in one volume, that we can the better see how Chaucer developed his own voice in dialogue with Nature, the Mother of birds and humans alike." - R. Allen Shoaf, editor emeritus, EXEMPLARIA
"Ecofeminist Subjectivities addresses a need for work that combines close reading with comprehensive knowledge of new theoretical work in ecocriticism, feminism, and critical animal studies. The analysis is both innovative andpowerfully synthetic. The thesis is closely argued, timely, and ethically significant. The book shifts our perspective on major Chaucerian texts and opens the way for further studies that explore medieval representations of species." - Carolynn Van Dyke, Francis A. March Professor of English, Lafayette College.
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Book Title: Ecofeminist Subjectivities
Book Subtitle: Chaucer’s Talking Birds
Authors: Lesley Kordecki
Series Title: The New Middle Ages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230337893
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Lesley Kordecki 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-11527-9Published: 03 October 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-29665-1Published: 03 October 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-33789-3Published: 10 October 2011
Series ISSN: 2945-5936
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 215
Topics: Gender Studies, Medieval Literature, Literature, general, History of Medieval Europe, Classical and Antique Literature, Feminism