Chaucer's House of Cards: Modes of Authority in 'The House of Fame'
- Author / Editor
- McKenna, Steven R.
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.