Progressive Skepticism in Chaucer: A Comparative Study of 'The Book of the Duchess' and 'The Parliament of Fowls'
- Author / Editor
- Pigott, Margaret B.
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.