Trojanische Traumtore: Elliptische Ekphrasis in Chaucers "House of Fame."

Author / Editor
Rouse, Margitta.

Title
Trojanische Traumtore: Elliptische Ekphrasis in Chaucers "House of Fame."

Published
Anne-Katrin Federow and Kay Malcher, eds. Troja Bauen: Vormodernes Erzählen von der Antike in Comparatistischer Sicht (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter,
2021), pp. 203-26.

Description
Explores ellipsis, ekphrasis, lists, allusions, and their combinations as techniques and thematic devices in HF. Focuses on "elliptical ekphrasis" of source material as axiological choice, and as a method of literary generation and renewal, with particular attention to dreaming and Virgil’s "Aeneid," reading the omission of Virgil's gates of dream from Chaucer's poem as intentional and evocative.

Alternative Title
Troja Bauen

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame
Style and Versification
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations