Disharmonic Spheres: Metapoetic Noise in Geoffrey Chaucer's "Parliament of Fowls."

Author / Editor
Keller, Wolfram R.

Title
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
House of Fame