Chaucer the Word-Master: The 'House of Fame' and the 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Leana, Joyce Fitzpatrick.

Title
Chaucer the Word-Master: The 'House of Fame' and the 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
DAI 35.02 (1974): 1049-50A.

Description
Argues that HF is unified and that in its concern with the power of language it anticipates the theme of language as magic or illusion in CT. Also explores the sources of HF.

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame
Canterbury Tales--General
Language and Word Studies
Sources, Analogues, and LIterary Relations