Chaucer's Chimera: His Proto-Surrealist Portrait of Fame
- Author / Editor
- Magoun, Francis P.,Jr., and Tauno F. Mustanoja.
Chaucer's Chimera: His Proto-Surrealist Portrait of Fame
- Published
- Speculum 50 (1975): 48-54.
- Description
- The portrait is more static and less chimerical than its sources in the "Aeneid" and the "Apocalypse." By focusing on one detail as others recede in a flexible irrational dream vision, Chaucer surrealistically blends elements of chimera and goddess into a functional unity in which contradictory details are simultaneously true.
- Contributor
- Mustanoja, Tauno F.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame.