Chaucer and the Imaginary World of FameBoydell & Brewer Ltd, 1984 - 252 sivua 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 Divine Comedy 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 The House of Fame 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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Sivu ii
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... www.boydellandbrewer.com A Cip catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library This publication is printed on acid - free paper Contents page Preface Note on Texts and Translations INTRODUCTION : O Piero Boitani 1984.
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Sivu v
Piero Boitani. Contents page Preface Note on Texts and Translations INTRODUCTION : A BOOK on Chaucer and Fame 1. CHAUCER's Fame and HER WORLD : The Poem 2. FROM HOMmer to the Scholastics I Goddess and Maid : Femios , Agamemnon and ...
Piero Boitani. Contents page Preface Note on Texts and Translations INTRODUCTION : A BOOK on Chaucer and Fame 1. CHAUCER's Fame and HER WORLD : The Poem 2. FROM HOMmer to the Scholastics I Goddess and Maid : Femios , Agamemnon and ...
Sivu x
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Sivu xi
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1 | 42 |
AngloSaxon Poetry | 49 |
Gaucelm Faidit | 57 |
Two Scholastics and their Images of Vainglory | 63 |
THE FOURTEENTHCENTURY FAME OF FAME | 72 |
FAME IN HER HOUSE | 159 |
FROM WONDER TO SECRECY | 179 |
Literature AND LANGUAGE | 189 |
Notes | 217 |
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Aeneas Aeneid Aeolus Alain de Lille Amorosa Visione Augustinus beautiful becomes Bernardus Bersuire Boccaccio Boethius Boitani Book Castle celebrated Chapter Chaucer Christian Cicero claritas classical conception culture Dante Dante's death Dido doxa dream Eagle earth Echo English Ennius eternal etymology fabula fama fame and glory Fame's famous fourteenth century Franciscus Fulgentius Geoffrey Geoffrey's goddess Greek grete heaven Hercules heroes Holcot Homer honour House of Fame House of Rumour human imaginaire immortality Inferno Italian J. A. W. Bennett John of Salisbury kleos Koonce Labyrinth Latin laurel Lida literature medieval Middle Ages Monk's Tale Muses myth Narcissus Ovid Ovide Moralisé pagan Paradiso passage Pegasus Petrarch philosophers poem poet poetic poetry praise protagonist quoted renown Roman Rome says Scipio Secretum shadow Speculum Morale Statius story Summa Tale Temple of Venus theme things thynges tradition triumph Troilus truth vainglory Virgil Virgilian virtue wind Wisdom words worldly write