Progressive Skepticism in Chaucer: A Comparative Study of 'The Book of the Duchess' and 'The Parliament of Fowls'

Author / Editor
Pigott, Margaret B.

Title
Progressive Skepticism in Chaucer: A Comparative Study of 'The Book of the Duchess' and 'The Parliament of Fowls'

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 35 (1975): 7266A

Description
The variations in narrative structure from BD to PF reveal a shift in Chaucer's belief from faith in the capacity of experience, book, and dream as sources of absolute truth to skepticism about these same medieval traditions.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess.
Parliament of Fowls.