Mythopoetics and Chaucer's 'Hous of Fame'

Author / Editor
Lysiak, Robert Joseph.

Title
Mythopoetics and Chaucer's 'Hous of Fame'

Published
DAI 34.12 (1974): 7765A.

Description
Explores the skeptical uncertainly about dreams that is expressed in the opening of HF as it relates to classical and medieval notions of "mythopoesis" and the validity and interpretation of poetry. Reads HF as a parody of mythopoesis.

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