Chaucer's "Parlement of Foules": Aesthetic Order and Individual Experience.

Description: Addresses the "intentional ambiguity" of PF, arguing that it results from the tension between "discursive" and "non-discursive" aspects of the poem, a distinction derived from Susanne Langer. Uses a variety of lexical patterns and oppositions to show how the narrator comically struggles to find order in chaos, while Chaucer the poet asserts (particularly in the roundel) that poetic tradition is itself a form of order.