Ambient Media and Chaucer's "House of Fame.”
- Author / Editor
- Nelson, Ingrid.
Ambient Media and Chaucer's "House of Fame.”
- Published
- ELH: English Literary History 88 (2021): 551-78.
- Description
- Argues that, rooted in "medieval theory of mediated perception" and concerned with perceptual distortion, HF shows how a "sensing body" participates in an "ambient mediascape"--one that includes environmental media (air, water, architecture) as well as aesthetic media (painting, engraving, writing).
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame