Vernacular Transformations of the Latin Inheritance: Chaucer's "House of Fame."
- Author / Editor
- Cawsey, Kathy.
Vernacular Transformations of the Latin Inheritance: Chaucer's "House of Fame."
- Published
- Images of Language in Middle English Vernacular Writings (Woodbridge: Brewer, 2020), pp. 13-43.
- Description
- Argues that in its adaptations of poetic traditions (particularly representations of the four elements and "ars grammatica") and in dealing "explicitly with the problematics of language and poetry," HF is "almost an anti-'ars-poetica'.” In it, Chaucer is more sceptical than Latin "auctores," showing "what happens in a world of fallen language when 'auctoritas' is no longer authoritative, and readers can become re-writers."
- Alternative Title
- Images of Language in Middle English Vernacular Writings.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations