Chaucer, Boccaccio, and the Debate of Love
Author: N. S. Thompson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780198186465
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales have often been linked, this is the first ever major study of the two most popular medieval collections of framed narratives to examine the texts as a whole. The present study goes well beyond shared general similarities and the inconclusive search for source or analogue material in order to look at the internal dynamics of each text and the surprising similarities that emerge there in terms of theories of literature, authority and authorship and the particular reader response envisaged by their authors.