Chaucer's House of Fame The Poetics of Skeptical Fideism

From reviews of the first edition: "Fresh insights into Chaucer's poem."-- Medium Aevum "A glimpse into the possible dynamics of Chaucerian ambiguity."- Speculum "Delany has placed Chaucerian scholars in her debt. . . . She has, most important of all, acknowledged that the real subject of the poem is poetry itself, and that Chaucer's concern throughout is to explore artistic problems."-- Modern Philology 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 Fameportrays the ambiguity of old or new communication, with skeptical fideism as the means of transcending ambiguity.Delany, Sheila is the author of 'Chaucer's House of Fame The Poetics of Skeptical Fideism' with ISBN 9780813012599 and ISBN 0813012597.