"Kek, kek": Translating Birds in Chaucer's "Parliament of Fowls."

Author / Editor
Warren, Michael J.

Title
"Kek, kek": Translating Birds in Chaucer's "Parliament of Fowls."

Published
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 38 (2016): 109-32.

Description
Explores the bird-talk and "interspecies communication" in PF as they dramatize the potentials and limitations of allegory, translation, "biotranslation," the "writeability" of bird sounds, and the relations between human and nonhuman subjectivities. Includes comments on SqT and HF, with mention of ManT and NPT.

Chaucer Subjects
Parliament of Fowls
Squire and His Tale
House of Fame
Manciple and His Tale
Nun's Priest and His Tale