Buch, Englisch, Band 40, 166 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 440 g
Reihe: Chaucer Studies
Buch, Englisch, Band 40, 166 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 440 g
Reihe: Chaucer Studies
ISBN: 978-1-84384-201-9
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
A comparison of Chaucer and Boccaccio sheds new light on both writers, indicating their mutual use of ancient comic literary traditions.
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 comictales, 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.
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Weitere Infos & Material
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introductory Matters
The Comic Inheritance of Boccaccio and Chaucer
Parallel Comic Tales in the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales
Antifraternal Satire
Boccaccio's Filostrato and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: Adding Comedy
Conclusion
Bibliography
