The Logic of the Dream Vision in Chaucer's 'House of Fame'
- Author / Editor
- Lynch, Kathryn L.
The Logic of the Dream Vision in Chaucer's 'House of Fame'
- Published
- Richard J. Utz, ed. Literary Nominalism and the Theory of Rereading Late Medieval Texts: A New Research Paradigm (Lewiston, N.Y.; Queenston, Ont.; Lampeter, Wales: Edwin Mellen, 1995), pp. 179-203.
- Description
- Through the Eagle's arguments and Fame's arbitrary inferences and syllogisms, HF satirizes the logical analysis of language. This discrediting of late-medieval dialectic is a new use of the dream-vision genre, which traditionally celebrates reason and analytic science.
- Alternative Title
- Literary Nominalism and the Theory of Rereading Late Medieval Texts: A New Research Paradigm.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame.