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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 and the lit....
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