Myth, Allegory, and Vision in the 'Parlement of Foules': A Study in Chaucerian Problem Solving
- Author / Editor
- Piehler, Paul.
Myth, Allegory, and Vision in the 'Parlement of Foules': A Study in Chaucerian Problem Solving
- Published
- J. Stephen Russell, ed. Allegoresis: The Craft of Allegory in Medieval Literature (New York and London: Garland, 1988, for 1987), pp. 187-214.
- Description
- Although scholars agree that Chaucer failed to provide a solution to the problems raised in PF, Piehler argues through a reading on scholastic principles that Chaucer solves them "in accordance with principles characteristic of his age and fundamental to its practice of allegory."
- Alternative Title
- Allegoresis: The Craft of Allegory in Medieval Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls.