Chaucer's 'House of Fame': A Journey into Skepticism

Author / Editor
Vankeerbergen, Bernadette C.

Title
Chaucer's 'House of Fame': A Journey into Skepticism

Published
Medieval Perspectives 9 (1994): 158-69.

Description
Elements of the poem--dream vision, narrator's self-mockery, genre, satire, absence of authority--contribute to uncertainty of interpretation. That the "mechanics of uncertainty" inhere in all of these elements reinforces skepticism as the poem's major theme.

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame.