The Decameron and the Canterbury tales
new essays on an old question
by Leonard Michael Koff and Brenda Deen Schildgen
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"What was the influence of the Decameron on the genesis and shape of the Canterbury Tales? In this collection, leading scholars of Chaucer and Boccaccio offer original, provocative answers to this question in light of recurring critical resistance to the idea of the Decameron as a text for Chaucer.
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.
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Literature, Knowledge, Storytelling in literature, Medieval Tales, History and criticism, Influence, Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature, English poetry, Italian influences, English poetry, history and criticism, middle english, 1100-1500, Italian literature, history and criticism, Knowledge and learning| Edition | Availability |
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The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question
March 2000, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
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in English
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The Decameron and the Canterbury tales: new essays on an old question
2000, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
in English
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 324-344) and index.
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