Chaucer's House of Cards: Modes of Authority in 'The House of Fame'

Author / Editor
McKenna, Steven R.

Title
Chaucer's House of Cards: Modes of Authority in 'The House of Fame'

Published
Jackson State University Researcher: An Interdisciplinary Journal 12 (1988): 67-78.

Description
Each of the three modes of authority--textual, experiential, visionary--complicated by the fictive dream-vision form, "fails to be authoritative because each demonstrates the lack of finality and absoluteness presumed to be characteristic of authority."

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame.