Airy Bodies and Knowledge in Chaucer's "House of Fame."

Published: Enarratio: Publications of the Medieval Association of the Midwest 23 (2022): 52-68.

Description: Examines the "embodiment of language" in HF and argues that it displays epistemological "confidence in the ability of the textual word/body to communicate accurately to the reader's imagination in a synesthetic experience." Focuses on how Chaucer (following Dante's Thomistic hylomorphism) "portrays audible speech as visible shades of the speakers" and "calls attention to the spoken word embodied in writing." Also comments on the textual history of HF in manuscripts and early print.

Chaucer Subjects: House of Fame
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations