Authority and Interpretation in the 'House of Fame'
- Author / Editor
- Jeffrey, David Lyle.
Authority and Interpretation in the 'House of Fame'
- Published
- David Lyle Jeffrey. House of the Interpreter: Reading Scripture, Reading Culture (Waco, Tx,: Baylor University Press, 2003), pp. 87-110.
- Description
- Considers the three-part structure of HF, the poem's references to Virgil's "Aeneid," and its allusions to Dante's "Divine Comedy" and to Ezekiel, arguing that, thematically, it abandons history as a source of truth, considers the potential of poetry, and concludes in a "kind of eschaton." i.e., in the biblically-inspired hope of "deferred understanding," despite human limitations.
- Alternative Title
- House of the Interpreter: Reading Scripture, Reading Culture.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations