Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 151 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9781846157035
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
Content:
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
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781843842019
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9781843842019
Language:
English
URL:
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