Rumour and Renown: Representations of "Fama" in Western Literature
- Author / Editor
- Hardie, Philip.
Rumour and Renown: Representations of "Fama" in Western Literature
- Published
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- Physical Description
- vi, 686 pp.
- Description
- Explores the meaning of Middle English "fama," derived from the Latin, in relation to the spoken word. Chapter 15, "Chaucer's 'House of Fame' and Pope's 'Temple of Fame'," analyzes relations between the spoken and written word in these poems, as well as other dichotomies within Chaucer's poems, including truth and rumor as Chaucer compares his dream of Dido and Aeneas with Virgil's version. Discusses how both Chaucer and Pope engage with the Latin and Greek traditions and examines Pope's homage to Chaucer, as well as his divergence from Chaucer's text.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations