The Detached and Judging Narrator in Chaucer's "House of Fame."

Author / Editor
Zucker, David H.

Title
The Detached and Judging Narrator in Chaucer's "House of Fame."

Published
Thoth 8 (1967): 3-22.

Description
Investigates the combination of serious message (the nature of "love-in-the world") and comic method in HF, exploring Chaucer's shifts in narrative stance, his adaptations of Dante, his uses of irony, and the similarities between his methods and those used by Augustan poets, especially Alexander Pope in "The Rape of the Lock."

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