'Betwixen Hevene and Erthe and See': Seeing Words in Chaucer's 'House of Fame'

Author / Editor
Meecham-Jones, Simon.

Title
'Betwixen Hevene and Erthe and See': Seeing Words in Chaucer's 'House of Fame'

Published
Neil Thomas and Francoise Le Saux, eds. Unity and Difference in European Cultures. Durham Modern Language Series (Durham: University of Durham, 1998), pp. 155-71.

Description
HF is a response to the "creative anxiety inherent in seeking to continue a literary inheritance believed to have already reached its highest peaks of achievement." In his presentation of a desert landscape, Chaucer partially resists Continental models and indicates that English is outside the "impermeable" system of European language and culture.

Contributor
Thomas, Neil, ed.
Le Saux, Francoise, ed.

Alternative Title
Unity and Difference in European Cultures.

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame.