Subversive Voices in Chaucer's House of Fame
- Author / Editor
- Kordecki, Lesley.
Subversive Voices in Chaucer's House of Fame
- Published
- Exemplaria 11: 53-77, 1999.
- Description
- To find his own poetic voice, Chaucer's dreamer in HF impersonates the non-canonical subjectivities and voices of women and animals in the form of Dido, the eagle, and the monster-woman Fame. By doing so, he turns away from masculine literary authority to explore alternative authority based on orality and the natural world.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame.