Suffering in the Service of Venus: The Sacred, the Sublime, and Chaucerian Joy in the Middle Part of the 'Parliament of Fowls'

Published: Holly Faith Nelson, Lynn R. Szabo, and Jens Zimmermann, eds. Through a Glass Darkly: Suffering, the Sacred, and the Sublime in Literature and Theory ([Waterloo, Ont.]: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010), pp. 39-53.

Description: Without a shift in tone, Chaucer both appreciates and censures the fruitless love depicted in the Temple of Venus in PF. By fusing "joy and judgment," he evokes paradoxically the "deeper joy" of beauty.; Revised version of "Surprised by Joy: Chaucer's Tonal Achievement in 'Parliament of Fowls,' 92-294." In Michel Desjardins and Harold Remus, eds. Tradition and Formation: Claiming an Inheritance: Essays in Honour of Peter C. Erb (Kitchener, Ont.: Pandora Press, 2008), pp. 213-28.

Contributor: Nelson, Holly Faith, ed.; Szabo, Lynn R., ed.; Zimmermann, Jens, ed.; Desjardins, Michel, ed.; Remus, Harold, ed.

Alternative Title: Through a Glass Darkly: Suffering, the Sacred, and the Sublime in Literature and Theory.; "Surprised by Joy: Chaucer's Tonal Achievement in 'Parliament of Fowls,' 92-294."; Tradition and Formation: Claiming an Inheritance: Essays in Honour of Peter C. Erb.