... Book I fit into the unity of the poem? Critical views about Chaucer's purpose and the plausible theme of the House of Fame range from the exploration of limits of human understanding produced by the mind's confrontation with the sources of its knowledge, through simply a presentation of the dilemma faced by the medieval writer when attempting to justify his fiction by a reference ... the traitor Demophon and his victim Phillis, about Achilles and Breseyda, Paris and Enone, Ercules and Dyanira, Theseus and Adriane, and, finally, Jason and his two victims "Isiphile and Medea (HF, ll. 388-...

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