Bibliography: pages 74-83.The thesis attempts to show the complexity of the literary challenge which Chaucer undertook in the House of Fame. Firstly, I establish a sense of the tradition of criticism inspired by the poem, and then show the ramifications of the choice of medium. The poem is a "dream vision", a genre which took the contentious truth-claims and unsettled status of dreams, and used it as the foundation for a poetics which concentrated on the relation of the conscious subject to truth. This is investigated in an extended metaphor, where the experience of the unconscious subject in a purely linguistic world is tested, and from the experiment, conclusions may be drawn concerning the human condition with regard to all knowledge. I ...
(print) vii, 160 p. ; 24 cmAcknowledgments vii -- I. "What May I Conclude?" : Introduction 3 -- II. ...
This dissertation argues that the remarkable persistence of Chaucer\u27s fame in early modern Englan...
The thesis is in two parts. After outlining the dream classifications from Macrobius onwards, the fi...
Geoffrey Chaucer\u27s House of Fame is one of the most provocative dream-vision poems written in the...
The systematic disparagement of oral tradition in the House of Fame reveals Chaucer's poetic reflexi...
This dissertation studies the ways that Chaucer and his French contemporaries, Guillaume de Machaut,...
This dissertation studies the ways that Chaucer and his French contemporaries, Guillaume de Machaut,...
Models of medieval reading often describe a process that divorces emotion from intellect or that see...
Although the dream-poem was a remarkably popular, conventional and respected literary form in the Mi...
“Voys Lessons: Whirling Words in Chaucer’s ‘House of Rumour’” examines the lability of sound and its...
This diesis is a study of the oneiric imagery in Chaucer’s works. Unlike other studies it concentra...
<p>This study argues that Chaucer's poetry belongs to a far-reaching conversation about the forms of...
This study examines Chaucer\u27s major poetry from the perspectives of recent work done on the psych...
“Voys Lessons: Whirling Words in Chaucer’s ‘House of Rumour’” examines the lability of sound and its...
This dissertation examines the rise of first-person fiction in the later Middle Ages, arguing that t...
(print) vii, 160 p. ; 24 cmAcknowledgments vii -- I. "What May I Conclude?" : Introduction 3 -- II. ...
This dissertation argues that the remarkable persistence of Chaucer\u27s fame in early modern Englan...
The thesis is in two parts. After outlining the dream classifications from Macrobius onwards, the fi...
Geoffrey Chaucer\u27s House of Fame is one of the most provocative dream-vision poems written in the...
The systematic disparagement of oral tradition in the House of Fame reveals Chaucer's poetic reflexi...
This dissertation studies the ways that Chaucer and his French contemporaries, Guillaume de Machaut,...
This dissertation studies the ways that Chaucer and his French contemporaries, Guillaume de Machaut,...
Models of medieval reading often describe a process that divorces emotion from intellect or that see...
Although the dream-poem was a remarkably popular, conventional and respected literary form in the Mi...
“Voys Lessons: Whirling Words in Chaucer’s ‘House of Rumour’” examines the lability of sound and its...
This diesis is a study of the oneiric imagery in Chaucer’s works. Unlike other studies it concentra...
<p>This study argues that Chaucer's poetry belongs to a far-reaching conversation about the forms of...
This study examines Chaucer\u27s major poetry from the perspectives of recent work done on the psych...
“Voys Lessons: Whirling Words in Chaucer’s ‘House of Rumour’” examines the lability of sound and its...
This dissertation examines the rise of first-person fiction in the later Middle Ages, arguing that t...
(print) vii, 160 p. ; 24 cmAcknowledgments vii -- I. "What May I Conclude?" : Introduction 3 -- II. ...
This dissertation argues that the remarkable persistence of Chaucer\u27s fame in early modern Englan...
The thesis is in two parts. After outlining the dream classifications from Macrobius onwards, the fi...