Time and Authority in Chaucer's 'Parliament of the Fowls'
- Author / Editor
- Steenbrugge, Charlotte.
Time and Authority in Chaucer's 'Parliament of the Fowls'
- Published
- Clíodhna Carney and Frances McCormack, eds. Chaucer's Poetry: Words, Authority and Ethics (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2013), pp. 121-33..
- Description
- Enters the discussion about apparent temporal discrepancies in PF and reframes it with a reminder that the poem occurs in a dream vision, and need not correspond literally to English weather and bird behavior. Embraces contradictory references to time in the poem rather than seeking to resolve them. These contradictions are likely purposeful and part of the work's message about eternity and mutability.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer's Poetry: Words, Authority and Ethics.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls