Stellification and Poetic Ascent in the "House of Fame."
- Author / Editor
- Swinford, Dean.
Stellification and Poetic Ascent in the "House of Fame."
- Published
- Modern Philology 111 (2013): 1–22.
- Description
- Focuses on HF, 584–92, clarifying the meaning and implications of "stellifye," arguing that the narrator's fear of stellification reflects Chaucer's concerns about social and poetic ascent, and describing how the allusion to Ganymede evokes a complex, sexualized representation of "the possibilities and pitfalls engendered through [a] quest for poetic fame."
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame
Language and Word Studies