'Contentio': The Structural Paradigm of 'The Parliament of Fowls'

Author / Editor
Walker, Denis.

Title
'Contentio': The Structural Paradigm of 'The Parliament of Fowls'

Published
Paul Strohm and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1, 1984 (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1985), pp. 173-80.

Description
Questioning the validity of searches for unity, Walker posits structural disunity residing in 'contentio' to account for how PF "hangs together."

Alternative Title
Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1 (1984)

Chaucer Subjects
Parliament of Fowls.