Problems of Oral and Written Transmission as Reflected in Chaucer's 'House of Fame'

Author / Editor
Erzgräber, Willi.

Title
Problems of Oral and Written Transmission as Reflected in Chaucer's 'House of Fame'

Published
Mary-Jo Arn and Hanneke Wirtjes, eds. Historical and Editorial Studies in Medieval and Early Modern English (Groningen: Wolters-Nordhoff, 1985), pp. 113-28.

Description
Describes the interrelationship in HF between oral and written forms of transmission of literature. Only through the poet's journey through space (bk. 2) can limitations imposed by literary conventions of written text be overcome.

Alternative Title
Historical and Editorial Studies In Medieval and Early Modern English.

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame.