Chaucer and the Italian Trecento

Chaucer and the Italian Trecento

Author: Piero Boitani

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780521313506

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A collection of essays debating what fourteenth-century Italy and its literature meant to Chaucer.


Chaucer and Italian Culture

Chaucer and Italian Culture

Author: Helen Fulton

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2021-01-15

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1786836793

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Chaucerian scholarship has long been intrigued by the nature and consequences of Chaucer’s exposure to Italian culture during his professional visits to Italy in the 1370s. In this volume, leading scholars take a new and more holistic view of Chaucer’s engagement with Italian cultural practice, moving beyond the traditional ‘sources and analogues’ approach to reveal the varied strands of Italian literature, art, politics and intellectual life that permeate Chaucer’s work. Each chapter examines from different angles links between Chaucerian texts and Italian intellectual models, including poetics, chorography, visual art, classicism, diplomacy and prophecy. Echoes of Petrarch, Dante and Boccaccio reverberate throughout the book, across a rich and diverse landscape of Italian cultural legacies. Together, the chapters cover a wide range of theory and reference, while sharing a united understanding of the rich impact of Italian culture on Chaucer’s narrative art.


Chaucer and Italian Culture

Chaucer and Italian Culture

Author: Helen Fulton

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2021-01-15

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 1786836807

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This study offers a clear discussions of canonical Chaucerian works. It includes new accounts of Italian cultural influences on Chaucer’s writing. It has a contextualising introduction and comprehensive bibliography. It offers a comparative approaches to key texts.


Chaucer's Italian Tradition

Chaucer's Italian Tradition

Author: Warren Ginsberg

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780472112340

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Explores provocative questions about the dynamics of cross-cultural translation and the formation of tradition


Chaucer and Petrarch

Chaucer and Petrarch

Author: William T. Rossiter

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1843842157

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First full study of Chaucer's readings and translations of Petrarch suggests a far greater influence than has hitherto been accepted.


Chaucer

Chaucer

Author: David B. Raybin

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780271035673

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"Eleven essays that explore how modern scholarship interprets Chaucer's writings"--Provided by publisher.


(Re)writing and Remembering

(Re)writing and Remembering

Author: James Dalrymple

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2016-02-08

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1443888702

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Recounting past events is intrinsic to the storytelling function, as most fiction assumes the past tense as the natural means of narrating a story. Few narratives draw attention to this process, yet others make the act of remembering a primary part of the narrative situation. Ranging in its focus from poetry to novels, autobiographical memoirs and biopics – from the ostensibly fictional to the implicitly real – this volume discusses the extent to which such fictional acts of remembering are also acts of rewriting the past to suit the needs of the present. How seamlessly does experience yield to the ordering strictures of narrative and what is at stake in the process? What must be omitted or stylised, and to what (ideological) end? In making an artefact of the past, what role does artifice play, and what does this process also tell us about history-making?


Chaucer and Fame

Chaucer and Fame

Author: Isabel Davis

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1843844079

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Fama, or fame, is a central concern of late medieval literature. Where fame came from, who deserved it, whether it was desirable, how it was acquired and kept were significant inquiries for a culture that relied extensively on personal credit and reputation. An interest in fame was not new, being inherited from the classical world, but was renewed and rethought within the vernacular revolutions of the later Middle Ages. The work of Geoffrey Chaucer shows a preoccupation with ideas on the subject of fama, not only those received from the classical world but also those of his near contemporaries; via an engagement with their texts, he aimed to negotiate a place for his own work in the literary canon, establishing fame as the subject-site at which literary theory was contested and writerly reputation won. Chaucer's place in these negotiations was readily recognized in his aftermath, as later writers adopted and reworked postures which Chaucer had struck, in their own bids for literary place. This volume considers the debates on fama which were past, present and future to Chaucer, using his work as a centre point to investigate canon formation in European literature from the late Middle Ages and into the Early Modern period. Isabel Davis is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature at Birkbeck, University of London; Catherine Nall is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. Contributors: Joanna Bellis, Alcuin Blamires, Julia Boffey, Isabel Davis, Stephanie Downes, A.S.G. Edwards, Jamie C. Fumo, Andrew Galloway, Nick Havely, Thomas A. Prendergast, Mike Rodman Jones, William T. Rossiter, Elizaveta Strakhov.


Chaucer and the Subject of History

Chaucer and the Subject of History

Author: Lee Patterson

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 9780299128340

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Chaucer's interest in individuality was strikingly modern. He was aware of the pressures on individuality exerted by the past and by society - by history. Chaucer investigated not just the idea of history but the historical world intimately related to his own political and literary career. This book has shaped the way that Chaucer is read.


Reading Chaucer in Time

Reading Chaucer in Time

Author: Kara Gaston

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2020-02-27

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 019259432X

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The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue in literature, theology, and philosophy, in social, political, jurisprudential, and intellectual history, the history of art, and the history of science but also that combines these subjects productively. It offers innovative studies on topics that may include, but are not limited to, manuscript and book history; languages and literatures of the global Middle Ages; race and the post-colonial; the digital humanities, media and performance; music; medicine; the history of affect and the emotions; the literature and practices of devotion; the theory and history of gender and sexuality, ecocriticism and the environment; theories of aesthetics; medievalism. Reading for form can mean reading for formation. Understanding processes through which a text was created can help us in characterizing its form. But what is involved in bringing a diachronic process to bear upon a synchronic work? When does literary formation begin and end? When does form happen? These questions emerge with urgency in the interactions between English poet Geoffrey Chaucer and Italian trecento authors Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Francis Petrarch. In fourteenth-century Italy, new ways were emerging of configuring the relation between author and reader. Previously, medieval reading was often oriented around the significance of the text to the individual reader. In Italy, however, reading was beginning to be understood as a way of getting back to a work's initial formation. This book tracks how concepts of reading developed within Italian texts, including Dante's Vita nova, Boccaccio's Filostrato and Teseida, and Petrarch's Seniles, impress themselves upon Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and Canterbury Tales. It argues that Chaucer's poetry reveals the implications of reading for formation: above all, that it both depends upon and effaces the historical perspective and temporal experience of the individual reader. Problems raised within Chaucer's poetry thus inform this book's broader methodological argument: that there is no one moment at which the formation of Chaucer's poetry ends; rather its form emerges in and through process of reading within time.