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Essay Archive - Chaucer's "The House of Fame": The Cultural Nature of Fame
Chaucer's "The House of Fame": The Cultural Nature of Fame
DISCUSS THE CULTURAL NATURE OF FAME AND ITS TEXTUAL EXPRESSION WITH REFERENCE TO
ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING: ORAL HEROIC POETRY, CHAUCER'S DEPICTION IN THE
HOUSE OF FAME AND THE MODERN CONSTRUCTION OF THE CANON OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
YOU SHOULD FOCUS YOUR ANALYSIS ON THE INTERPLAY OF ORAL AND LITERARY TRADITIONS
IN THESE CONTEXTS.
Many critics have noted the complexities within Chaucer's The House of Fame,
in particular, the complexities between the oral....
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