The Poet as Master Builder: Compositional and Locational Memory in the Middle Ages
- Author / Editor
- Carruthers, Mary (J.)
The Poet as Master Builder: Compositional and Locational Memory in the Middle Ages
- Published
- New Literary History 24 (1993): 881-904
- Description
- Dante and Chaucer use "buildings of the imagination" to organize lists of names, lists less informational than "inventional"--sets of associated plots or ideas that may reverberate in the work in which they appear. Examples from HF and BD as well as from Dante's "Inferno", help clarify the technique, which Carruthers explores further as a monastic procedure for composing prayers and for studying Scripture.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- House of Fame.
- Book of the Duchess.