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Chaucer's House of Fame
The Poetics of Skeptical Fideism

By Delany, Sheila

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ISBN: 0813012597 Publisher: Univ Pr of Florida Published: Apr 28 1994 Weight: 0.40lbs. Height: 8.00" Width: 5.25" Depth: 0.50" Language: English

Publisher's Comments
On its original publication this classic title made sense of a difficult poem for the first time and brought that poem to the center of a concern with the nature of tradition, textuality, and language that is current today. The book forces late-medieval philosophy out of the closet and into a relation with literature, and it validates the use of contemporary methods and sensibility in literary criticism. In Sheila Delany's view, House of Fame portrays the ambiguity of old or new communication, with skeptical fideism as the means of transcending ambiguity.