Chaotic Order in the Supertext of The Canterbury Tales and the Persian Manteq-at-Tair
- Author / Editor
- Thundy, Zacharias P.
Chaotic Order in the Supertext of The Canterbury Tales and the Persian Manteq-at-Tair
- Published
- Michigan Academician 31: 385-99, 1999.
- Description
- Using scientific chaos theory to clarify the changeable complexity of CT, Thundy argues that disunity is a fundamental feature of the work. Also argues that the Persian poem Manteq-at-Tair ("Language" or "Parliament" of the Birds), by Farid-ad-Din Attar, inspired aspects of PF and CT, encouraging Chaucer to adapt CT in different ways for different occasions.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Parliament of Fowls.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.