From Imitation to Invention: Chaucer's Journey from "The House of Fame" to the "Nun's Priest's Tale.”
- Author / Editor
- Kennedy, Teresa A.
From Imitation to Invention: Chaucer's Journey from "The House of Fame" to the "Nun's Priest's Tale.”
- Published
- Helen Fulton, ed. Chaucer and Italian Culture (Cardiff: Unversity of Wales Press, 2021), pp. 217-40.
- Description
- Argues that the dream vision aspects of HF and NPT can be read "through their shared preoccupations with writing, reading and problematic quest for 'authority' by vernacular texts." Addresses the importance of textual authority, allegory, and parody, as well as how Chaucer uses Italian sources, including "repurposing Dante's vision of Paradise," to create meaning in language.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer and Italian Culture
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame
Nun's Priest and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations