Authorizing the Reader in Chaucer's House of Fame
- Author / Editor
- Amtower, Laurel.
Authorizing the Reader in Chaucer's House of Fame
- Published
- Philological Quarterly 79: 273-91, 2000.
- Description
- HF advocates an "ethics of reading" as the narrator struggles to accommodate contradictions found in literary texts. Book 1 ponders the legend and textual transmission of the Dido and Aeneas story. Book 2 learns about the suspect nature of language in its ability to relay "truth." Book 3 realizes the role of Fortune in canonizing literary texts and their subject matter. Because HF privileges reading over writing, subjective judgment prevails over auctoritas.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame.