The Harmony of Chaucer's 'Parlement' A Dissonant Voice
- Author / Editor
- Leicester, H. Marshall, Jr.
The Harmony of Chaucer's 'Parlement' A Dissonant Voice
- Published
- Chaucer Review 9 (1974): 109-24.
- Description
- Argues that PF "exemplifies and confronts" late fourteenth-century concern with the role of subjective perspective in considering traditional authority. Through various stylized, "thought-marked" perspectives, the poem presents the "disruptive force" of individual experience and the need for "self-limitation"; as a proto-retraction, the roundel presages the endings of TC and CT by reauthorizing authority.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls