Disharmonic Spheres: Metapoetic Noise in Geoffrey Chaucer's "Parliament of Fowls."
- Author / Editor
- Keller, Wolfram R.
Disharmonic Spheres: Metapoetic Noise in Geoffrey Chaucer's "Parliament of Fowls."
- Published
- Cornelia Wilde and Wolfram R. Keller, eds. Perfect Harmony and Melting Strains: Transformations of Music in Early Modern Culture between Sensibility and Abstraction (Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter, 2021), pp. 11-37.
- Description
- Describes the background to and representations of the harmony of the spheres in PF and in HF, arguing that both poems depict the "three ventricles of the brain"--imagination, logic, and memory--and that, through parody and/or inversion, each depicts a poetics, "the cornerstone of which is disharmony rather than harmony."
- Contributor
- Wilde, Cornelia, ed.
Keller, Wolfram R., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Perfect Harmony and Melting Strains: Transformations of Music in Early Modern Culture between Sensibility and Abstraction
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls
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