Fame's Fabrication

Author / Editor
Kendrick, Laura.

Title
Fame's Fabrication

Published
Paul Strohm and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1, 1984 (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1985), pp. 135-48.

Description
Examines Froissart's and Christine de Pisan's treatments of fame and the role of the poet in bestowing it. Questioning this tradition in HF, "Chaucer's art is to mask his own opinions and to reveal his readers' to themselves."

Alternative Title
Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1 (1984)

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame.