Interspecies Mimicry: Birdsong in Chaucer's 'Manciple's Tale' and 'The Parlement of Fowles'

Author / Editor
Gorst, Emma.

Title
Interspecies Mimicry: Birdsong in Chaucer's 'Manciple's Tale' and 'The Parlement of Fowles'

Published
New Medieval Literatures 12 (2010): 147-54.

Description
Considers the speaking birds in ManT and PF for the ways they suggest the "destabilization of human identity," also considering the topic in the late-fourteenth-century tale, "The Woman and the Three Parrots."

Chaucer Subjects
Manciple and His Tale
Parliament of Fowls