The Storyteller's Memory Palace: A Method of Interpretation Based on the Function of Memory Systems in Literature--Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, Salman Rushdie, Angela Carter, Thomas Pynchon, and Paul Auster
- Author / Editor
- Bewernick, Hanne.
The Storyteller's Memory Palace: A Method of Interpretation Based on the Function of Memory Systems in Literature--Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, Salman Rushdie, Angela Carter, Thomas Pynchon, and Paul Auster
- Published
- New York: Peter Lang, 2010.
- Physical Description
- 253 pp.
- Series
- European University Studies: Anglo-Saxon Language and Literature.
- Description
- Comments on HF and TC in chapter 2, "Medieval Literature: Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland" (pp. 47-86). Compares the three buildings that the dreamer visits in HF--the temple in the desert, the palace of Fame, and the twirling house of Rumor--with the paradigms of imaginary buildings suggested in ancient and medieval memory systems. In TC, Chaucer uses a familiar topos: he compares the poet to a master builder who first makes a mental plan of an object before manifesting it in a physical sense.
- Alternative Title
- "Medieval Literature: Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland."
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame
- Troilus and Criseyde