Consumption and Memory in Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls
- Author / Editor
- Kerr, John.
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.