Literary Authority and the Lists of Chaucer's 'House of Fame': Destruction and Definition through Proliferation
- Author / Editor
- Ruffolo, Lara.
Literary Authority and the Lists of Chaucer's 'House of Fame': Destruction and Definition through Proliferation
- Published
- Chaucer Review 27 (1993): 325-41.
- Description
- HF contains an inordinate number of lists of seemingly disparate materials in random order. Chaucer challenges the concept of authority by suggesting that the lists themselves provide the "authority"--not any one central force. Readers authorize a poem through their own "lists": the experiences they bring to it.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame.