Die Himmelsreise: Chaucers "House of Fame."

Author / Editor
Kleinstück, Johannes.

Title
Die Himmelsreise: Chaucers "House of Fame."

Published
In Johannes Kleinstück, Mythos und Symbol in Englischer Dichtung (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1964), pp. 25-55.

Description
Argues that Chaucer's depiction of fame in HF is skeptical, emphasizing its dependence upon fortune, and arguing that it is more similar to Montaigne's notion of glory than to those of Dante or Petrarch.

Alternative Title
Mythos und Symbol in Englischer Dichtung.

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