Chaucer, Boccaccio, and the Debate of Love
Chaucer, Boccaccio, and the Debate of Love

Author: N. S. Thompson

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780198186465

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Although 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.

Chaucer and Boccaccio
Chaucer and Boccaccio

Author: R. Edwards

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2001-12-17

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1403907242

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In the late Middle Ages, Chaucer invents two imaginative domains crucial to his culture and to our understanding of the emergence of selfhood, subjectivity and social arrangements; antiquity and late-medieval modernity. Edwards demonstrates in this study how this was the result of Chaucer's reading and re-writing of the works of Boccaccio, which provide sources and models for portraying the classical past and medieval modernity. In so doing, Edwards provides us with a valuable way of assessing Chaucer's analysis of late medieval culture.

Chaucer’s Squire’s Tale, Franklin’s Tale, and Physician’s Tale
Chaucer’s Squire’s Tale, Franklin’s Tale, and Physician’s Tale

Author: Kenneth Bleeth

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2018-11-19

Total Pages: 597

ISBN-13: 1442667559

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The latest volume in the Chaucer Bibliographies series, meticulously assembled by Kenneth Bleeth, is the most comprehensive record of scholarship on Chaucer's Squire's Tale, Franklin's Tale, and Physician's Tale.

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

The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales
The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales

Author: Leonard Michael Koff

Publisher: Associated University Presse

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780838638002

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That resistance, informed by a model of literary influence grounded on the idea of interruption, would keep the Canterbury Tales away from the Decameron, though not the rest of Chaucer from other works by Boccaccio. In the end, of course, that resistance tells us more about Chaucer's reception since the fifteenth century than about Chaucer himself or his sources."--BOOK JACKET.

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.

Chaucer and the Early Writings of Boccaccio
Chaucer and the Early Writings of Boccaccio

Author: David Wallace

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0859911861

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David Wallace's examination of the aims and literary affiliations of Boccaccio's early writings provides an indispensable preface to and context for an informed appraisal of Chaucer's usage of Boccaccio. Previous studies of the relationship between the work of the two poets have tended to consider Chaucer's borrowings without making a thorough study of the traditions which shaped the Italian writer's work. Wallace argues that Boccaccio was not primarily concerned with winning recognition at the Angevin court, but was chiefly concerned with fashioning an identity for himself as an illustrious vernacular author. Chaucer recognised that both the l>Filostrato/l> and l>Teseida/l> derived their basic narrative capabilities from popular tradition analogous to that of the English tail-rhyme romance. Following a detailed analysis of Chaucer's translation practice in l>Troilus and Criseyde/l>, Wallace concludes that it was Boccaccio's attempt to develop a narrative art occupying the middle ground between popular and illustrious, domestic and European traditions that Chaucer found so uniquely congenial and instructive.

The Yale Companion to Chaucer
The Yale Companion to Chaucer

Author: Seth Lerer

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 9780300109290

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A collection of essays on Chaucer's poetry, this guide provides up-to-date information on the history and textual contexts of Chaucer's work, on the ranges of critical interpretation, and on the poet's place in English and European literary history.

Sources and Analogues of the Canterbury Tales
Sources and Analogues of the Canterbury Tales

Author: Robert M. Correale

Publisher: DS Brewer

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 646

ISBN-13: 9780859918282

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"This edition ... contains the sources and major analogues of Chaucer's works (some re-edited from manuscripts closer to his own copies) together with discoveries from the past half-century, some of which have not previously appeared together in print. Special features in this new enterprise include a fresh interpretation of Chaucer's sources for the frame of the work, and modern English translations of all non-English texts; chapters on the individual tales contain an updated survey of the present state of scholarship on their source material".--BOOKJACKET.