The Court of Nature and the Nature of Courts: An Inquiry into the Function of Natura in Chaucer's 'Parliament of Fowls'
- Author / Editor
- Hoffman, Donald L.
The Court of Nature and the Nature of Courts: An Inquiry into the Function of Natura in Chaucer's 'Parliament of Fowls'
- Published
- Will Wright and Steven Kaplan, eds. The Image of Nature in Literature, the Media, and Society (Pueblo, Colo.: Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, 1993), pp. 61-67.
- Description
- Compares the depiction of social order in Aristotle's 'Politics' with that in PF. Chaucer's Natura is a figure of "communal order" who properly subordinates the drive for procreation to the need for social hierarchy.
- Alternative Title
- The Image of Nature in Literature, the Media, and Society: Selected Papers, 1993 Conference, Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, March 11-13, 1993, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls.