Authority and the Defense of Fiction: Renaissance Poetics and Chaucer's 'House of Fame'
- Author / Editor
- Martin, Carol A. N.
Authority and the Defense of Fiction: Renaissance Poetics and Chaucer's 'House of Fame'
- Published
- Theresa M. Krier, ed. Refiguring Chaucer in the Renaissance (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998), pp. 40-65.
- Description
- Assesses the presentation of HF in Speght's edition as an example of "Renaissance uneasiness" with the poem. Explains this uneasiness by contrasting HF with Sidney's "Apologie for Poetrie" (and Boccaccio's "Genealogie deorum gentilium libri"), arguing that Chaucer's rhetoric-based and "paradox-oriented" poetics differ from Sidney's more confident and philosophical theory of poetry.
- Alternative Title
- Refiguring Chaucer in the Renaissance.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame.