'Withyn a temple ymad of glas': Glazing, Glossing, and Patronage in Chaucer's 'House of Fame'
- Author / Editor
- Coley, David K.
'Withyn a temple ymad of glas': Glazing, Glossing, and Patronage in Chaucer's 'House of Fame'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 45 (2010): 59-84.
- Description
- In HF, Chaucer's depictions of Venus's temple, the desert surrounding it, and the foundation of Fame's palace offer a vision of vernacular poetry that resembles glass. Like glass, such poetry is produced by transformation and translation of fragmentary materials; like stained glass windows, it employs the strategies of narrative "amplificatio" while serving both to gloss and to memorialize.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame.