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Chaucer and the Imaginary World of Fame (Hardcover)
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Chaucer and the Imaginary World of Fame (Hardcover)
Series: Chaucer Studies
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lThe House/of/Fame/l> is one of Chaucer's most intellectually
challenging poems, drawing on diverse traditions such as dream
poetry and mythology, but unified by the central concept of Fame.
It is this concept, and the imaginary world' which surrounds it,
which Professor Boitani explores in this volume in the Chaucer
Studies series. He begins with a brief outline and discussion of
the poem, showing what problems it poses, and then turns to explore
the history and meaning of the idea of Fame, such as Chaucer might
have received from tradition', a quest which leads him into
Biblical, classical and Anglo-Saxon literature, into philosophy and
into romance. He then examines the view of Fame in Chaucer's
Italian, French and English contemporaries, and shows that it is a
central theme not only in Dante's l>Divine Comedy/l> but also
in the work of Boccaccio and Petrarch. The second half of the book
returns to Chaucer's poem and examines the imaginary world which he
constructs around Fame. Professor Boitani demonstrates that
l>The House of Fame/l> is in a sense Chaucer's creative
manifesto, centred on Fame as the goddess of language, myth and
poetry, with poets as her prophets. In this poem, he defines many
of the themes - Love and Nature, order and disorder, fortune and
chance, reality and appearance - which occupied him in his other
works. Here he deals with them directly rather than obliquely,
revealing the formative influences behind his own imaginary world
and mythology..
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