Unison and Cacophony: Reflections of Skepticism in Fourteenth-Century English Poetry

Author / Editor
Ruffolo, Lara.

Title
Unison and Cacophony: Reflections of Skepticism in Fourteenth-Century English Poetry

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1993): 2364A.

Description
With the fourteenth-century philosophical division between faith and reason, or single and multiple authorities, English poetry reveals new tensions, as shown in "Pearl," "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," and "Piers Plowman." HF,with its many lists, reveals and establishes the new multiplicity of authorities.

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame.