Authorizing Trojan England: Mythological Transgression and Hybridity in Chaucer's "House of Fame."
- Author / Editor
- Keller, Wolfram R.
Authorizing Trojan England: Mythological Transgression and Hybridity in Chaucer's "House of Fame."
- Published
- Hoofnagle, Wendy Marie, and Wolfram R. Keller, eds. Other Nations: The Hybridization of Medieval Insular Mythology and Identity (Heidelberg: Winter, 2011), pp. 185-205.
- Description
- Interprets Geffrey's encounters with the story of Troy in HF as analogous to Chaucer's own struggle with poetic authority, contrasting the account with that of Guido delle Colonne in his "Historia Destructionis Troiae," and linking it with Chaucer's TC. Chaucer's "hybridizing" of Virgilian and Ovidian narratives in HF (in both Gefffrey's dream and Fame's house) reflects the combinings intrinsic to all myth-making, underlying narratives of selfhood and nationhood.
- Contributor
- Hoofnagle, Wendy Marie, ed.
Keller, Wolfram R., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Other Nations: The Hybridization of Medieval Insular Mythology and Identity.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame
Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations