UID:
edocfu_9960119124602883
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 151 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-282-98807-7
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9786612988073
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1-84615-703-X
Series Statement:
Chaucer studies, 40
Content:
Although many of Chaucer's sources have been exhaustively studied, relatively little work has been done on the influence of his contemporary Boccaccio, a gap which this book aims to fill. It examines the relationship of the comic tales, the so-called fabliaux, in Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' and Boccaccio's 'Decameron', demonstrating that not only did Chaucer draw on Boccaccio's work, but that they shared the same comic literary tradition stretching back into antiquity. By putting the tales and the characters side-by-side, it throws new light on Chaucer's inventiveness and mode of working. Professor CAROL FALVO HEFFERNAN teaches at the Department of English, Rutgers University, New Jersey.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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The comic inheritance of Boccaccio and Chaucer -- Parallel comic tales in the Decameron and the Canterbury tales -- Antifraternal satire in Boccaccio and Chaucer -- Adding comedy : Boccaccio's Filostrato and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84384-201-7
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781846157035
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