Chaucer and Fame - Reputation and Reception

The questions of fame and reputation are central to Chaucer's writings; the essays here discuss their various treatments and manifestations.

Sommario

Introduction - Isabel Davis
Chaucer Joins the Schiera: The House of Fame, Italy and the Determination of Posterity - William T. Rossiter
"I wolde [...] han hadde a fame": Dante, Fame and Infamy in Chaucer's House of Fame - Nick R Havely
"And kis the steppes where as thow seest pace": Reconstructing the Spectral Canon in Statius and Chaucer - Elizaveta Strakhov
'"I nolde sette at al that noys a grote": Repudiating Infamy in Troilus and Criseyde and House of Fame - Alcuin Blamires
The Early Reception of Chaucer's The House of Fame - Julia Boffey and A S G Edwards
Fame's Penitent: Deconstructive Chaucer Among the Lancastrians - Andrew Galloway
After Deschamps: Chaucer's French Fame - Stephanie Downes
"Fresch anamalit termes": The Contradictory Celebrity of Chaucer's Aureation - Joanna Bellis
Chaucer the Puritan - Mike Rodman Jones
Revenant Chaucer: Early Modern Celebrity - Thomas A Prendergast
Ancient Chaucer: Temporalities of Fame - Jamie C. Fumo
Bibliography

Info autore

Isabel Davis, Catherine Nall

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Isabel Davis
• Con la collaborazione di: Isabel Davis (Editore), Catherine Nall (Editore)
• Editore: Boydell & Brewer
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 19.03.2015
• EAN: 9781843844075
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-407-5
• Pagine: 264
• Dimensioni: 156 mm x 234 mm x 16 mm
• Peso: 549 g
• Serie: Chaucer Studies; Chaucer Studies
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Lyrik, Poesie, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, Literature - Classics / Criticism, POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh