Forms of Perspective and Chaucer's Dream Spaces: Memory and the Catalogue in 'The House of Fame'

Author / Editor
Miller, T. S.

Title
Forms of Perspective and Chaucer's Dream Spaces: Memory and the Catalogue in 'The House of Fame'

Published
Style 48.04 (2014): 479-95.

Description
Examines three interiors within HF, and the use of the "catalogue" as a way of articulating and revealing the spatial relationships within the poem. Compares the "navigation of space" in HF to classical and medieval techniques of a "memory palace."

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