Reading Nature: The Phenomenology of Reading in the 'Parliament of Fowls'
- Author / Editor
- Ferster, Judith.
Reading Nature: The Phenomenology of Reading in the 'Parliament of Fowls'
- Published
- Mediaevalia 3 (1977): 189-213.
- Description
- Responding to the growing custom of reading silently, Chaucer focuses on the dilemma that there can be no interpretation without will but that the use of will can lead to prejudiced, subjective interpretations. The birds cannot communicate, but the narrator represents an affirmative solution through his loving relationship with literary texts.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls.