"Kek kek! kokkow! quek quek!": The Glorious Cacophony of Chaucer's "Parliament of Fowls."

Author / Editor
Hanssen, Ken R.

Title
"Kek kek! kokkow! quek quek!": The Glorious Cacophony of Chaucer's "Parliament of Fowls."

Published
Chaucer Review 55, no. 1 (2020): 70-87.

Description
Argues that the "ongoing negotiations between experience and authority, flesh and spirit, nature and the divine, are fluid, bidirectional, and mutually dependent" in PF. The poem depicts a cacophonous set of voices and demonstrates that the "formulation of any higher good depends on our ability to have clashing ideas."

Chaucer Subjects
Parliament of Fowls