Allegory, Allegoresis, and the Deallegorization of Language: The 'Roman de la Rose,' the 'De planctu naturae' and the 'Parlement of Foules'
- Author / Editor
- Quilligan, Maureen.
Allegory, Allegoresis, and the Deallegorization of Language: The 'Roman de la Rose,' the 'De planctu naturae' and the 'Parlement of Foules'
- Published
- Morton W. Bloomfield, ed. Allegory, Myth, and Symbol. Harvard English Studies, no. 9 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1981), pp. 163-83.
- Description
- Distinguishing the process of allegory from the nature of allegoresis, Chaucer deallegorizes his sources. He addresses not a reader but an "auditor," who is not asked to judge his own interpretive procedures. Jean de Meun defends the use of slang for explaining the truth; Chaucer bases his defense on verisimilitude. PF is deliberately unallegorical.
- Contributor
- Bloomfield, Morton W.,ed.
- Alternative Title
- Allegory, Myth, and Symbol.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.