Alan of Lille's 'Anticlaudianus' as Intertext in Chaucer's 'House of Fame'

Author / Editor
Powrie, Sarah.

Title
Alan of Lille's 'Anticlaudianus' as Intertext in Chaucer's 'House of Fame'

Published
Chaucer Review 44 (2010): 246-67.

Description
In playing on Alan's "theological epic" in HF, Chaucer projects a view of readerly interpretation as a key component of literary production, thus challenging the notions that poetry springs solely from inspiration and "that textual meaning could be securely sealed by an author."

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations