Poetic Invention and Chaucer's 'Parlement of Foules'
- Author / Editor
- Olsson, Kurt.
Poetic Invention and Chaucer's 'Parlement of Foules'
- Published
- Modern Philology 87 (1989): 13-35.
- Description
- PF, an exercise in "rhetorical outdoing" and discovery, shows Chaucer generating "newe science" from the formal "topoi" of "auctores." The episodes of PF conform to Macrobian categories of fabulous narrative, but these are transformed to provide a variety of psychological perspectives; the narrator's quest parallels the Boethian stages of Alain de Lille's "Sermo de sphaera intelligibi."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls.