Consumption and Memory in Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls

Author / Editor
Kerr, John.

Title
Consumption and Memory in Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls

Published
Bruce E. Brandt and Michael S. Nagy, eds. Proceedings of the 14th Northern Plains Conference on Earlier British Literature, April 7-8, 2006 (Brookings, S.Dak.: English Department, South Dakota State University, 2006), pp. 77-93.

Description
Kerr argues that the sixth canto of Dante's Inferno was the model for Chaucer's use of gluttony and alimentary metaphors in PF, particularly the latter's concern with literary transmission and the birds' debate.

Alternative Title
Proceedings of the 14th Northern Plains Conference on Earlier British Literature, April 7-8, 2006.

Chaucer Subjects
Parliament of Fowls
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.