Chaucer's 'House of Fame' as a Menippean Satire on the Philosophical/Theological Ideas of the Fourteenth Century
- Author / Editor
- Brewer, Melody Light.
Chaucer's 'House of Fame' as a Menippean Satire on the Philosophical/Theological Ideas of the Fourteenth Century
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1999): 4136A.
- Description
- The clash of realist Thomistic Christianity (Dante) and nominalism (Ockham) provides the basis of Chaucer's exuberant satire on philosophy, linguistics, classical tradition, the state of the Church, and other late-fourteenth-century issues. HF contrasts with treatment of the same matter in TC (serious) and NPT (comic).
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame.
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.