'In Forme of Speche' Is Anxiety: Orality in Chaucer's 'House of Fame'

Author / Editor
Arnovick, Leslie K.

Title
'In Forme of Speche' Is Anxiety: Orality in Chaucer's 'House of Fame'

Published
Oral Tradition 11 (1996): 320-45.

Description
Chaucer's proverbs in HF point up the provocative tension between orality and literacy in the Middle Ages. Ultimately, however, the poem illustrates that Chaucer favors literacy.

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame.