Chrematistische Poetik: Mentale Haushaltsführung in Geoffrey Chaucers "Traumvisionen."

Author / Editor
Keller, Wolfram R.

Title
Chrematistische Poetik: Mentale Haushaltsführung in Geoffrey Chaucers "Traumvisionen."

Published
Iris Därmann and Aloys Winterling, eds. Oikonomia und Ökonomie im klassischen Griechenland: Theorie--Praxis--Transformation (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2022), pp. 157-73.

Description
Argues that HF depicts a journey through the mental operation of using traditional classical material to generate new literature (tidings) and, in doing so, reflects aspects of late medieval understanding of psychology and economics. Crucial to the latter is a shift from the model of household maintenance to that of chresmatistic mercantile expansion, which depends upon dislocation, multiplication, even unnatural usury—in various ways analogous to imagination rather than memory.

Contributor
Därmann, Iris, ed.
Winterling, Aloys, ed.

Alternative Title
Oikonomia und Ökonomie im klassischen Griechenland: Theorie--Praxis--Transformation

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