Word of Mouth: "Fama" and Its Personifications in Art and Literature from Ancient Rome to the Middle Ages.
- Author / Editor
- Guastella, Gianni.
Word of Mouth: "Fama" and Its Personifications in Art and Literature from Ancient Rome to the Middle Ages.
- Published
- Oxford:Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 440 pp.; b&w illus.
- Description
- Includes a chapter entitled "Chaucer, House of Fame" (pp. 355-83) that describes HF and characterizes Chaucer's treatment of literary reputation as unusual in lacking the "moralistic slant" of his predecessors, opting instead for a "disillusioned (and often clearly amused)" perspective that the "world of stories (and literature) is governed by chance."
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations