Visual Power and Fame in René d'Anjou, Geoffrey Chaucer, and the Black Prince
- Author / Editor
- Gertz, SunHee Kim.
Visual Power and Fame in René d'Anjou, Geoffrey Chaucer, and the Black Prince
- Published
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- Physical Description
- xx, 227 pp.
- Series
- The New Middle Ages.
- Description
- Gertz reads HF in light of modern semiotic theory (Maria Corti, Umberto Eco, and Roman Jakobson) and medieval traditions of "fürstenspiegel" (mirror of princes), with particular attention to visual signs and codes. Contrasts Chaucer's techniques of "bringing the reader into a writerly position" with d'Anjou's uses of Arthurian topoi to claim fame for himself and with the performative efforts of Edward of Woodstock, the Black Prince, to claim fame. All three engagements with fame suggest that triggering the "quasi-platonic" idea of fame depends on tapping into popular awareness of common "trace narratives," even though tellingly Chaucer eschews familiar Arthurian motifs.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame.