"As I kan now remembre": Memory and Making in "The House of Fame."
- Author / Editor
- Griffiths, Jane.
"As I kan now remembre": Memory and Making in "The House of Fame."
- Published
- Philip Knox, Jonathan Morton, and Daniel Reeve, eds. Medieval Thought Experiments: Poetry, Hypothesis, and Experience in the European Middle Ages (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018), pp. 121-39.
- Description
- Interprets HF as 'an experiment in the exercise of poetic memory and poetic composition" that "suggests that memory's anarchic associations cannot fully be controlled," in part because of differences between "the memory of things and the memory of words." Examines relations between architecture and memory in medieval rhetorical theory, uses of source materials in HF, the eagle as "animalis motiua," contrasts between the constructions of Fame (authority) and Rumor experience), and the poem's inconclusiveness.
- Contributor
- Knox, Philip, ed.
Morton, Jonathan, ed.
Reeve, Daniel, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Thought Experiments: Poetry, Hypothesis, and Experience in the European Middle Ages
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations