Speaking Walls: Ekphrasis in Chaucer's House of Fame
- Author / Editor
- Olson, Mary.
Speaking Walls: Ekphrasis in Chaucer's House of Fame
- Published
- Enarratio 14 (2010, for 2007): 118-38.
- Description
- Surveys classical uses and techniques of ekphrasis and explores how Chaucer uses it in HF to comment on the shifting nature of communication. In descriptions of the House of Fame, House of Rumor, and especially the House of Glass (Aeneas and Dido), visual renderings transform into different forms of communication; these transformations parallel the Eagle's concern with acoustics.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame.