A Windmill Under a Walnut Shell: Chaucer's 'House of Fame' on the Illusionist Rhetoric of Systems

Author / Editor
Watson, Robert Allen.

Title
A Windmill Under a Walnut Shell: Chaucer's 'House of Fame' on the Illusionist Rhetoric of Systems

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 49 (1988): 503A.

Description
Images of the cosmos based on the liberal arts appear in the epics of Martianus Capella, Bernard Silvestris, Alain de Lille, and Dante. Chaucer parodies and humanizes the universe in HF.

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame.