Chaucer and the imaginary world of fame
Explores the concept, and the 'imaginary world' surrounding Chaucer's "The House of Fame". This book contains an outline and discussion of the poem. It explores the 'history' and meaning of the idea of 'Fame', such as Chaucer might have received from tradition. It demonstrates that "The House of Fame" is in a sense, Chaucer's creative manifesto.
Print Book, English, 1984
D.S. Brewer ; Barnes & Noble, Cambridge [Cambridgeshire], Totowa, N.J., USA, 1984
Chaucer studies, 10
xi, 252 pages ; 25 cm
9780389204763, 9780859911627, 0389204765, 0859911624
10432519
Introduction: A book on Chaucer and Fame
1. Chaucer's Fame and her world: the poem
2. From Homer to the scholastics
3. The fourteenth-century fame of fame
4. Fame in her house
5. The 'Fabula': from wonder to secrecy
6. The cave and the labyrinth: literature and language