Chaucer and Boccaccio: Antiquity and Modernity

ISBN-13: 9780333970089 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 205 str.

Robert Edwards

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'Edwards's attentive and accomplished study will surely engage students and scholars.' - C.S. Cox, Choice

Spis treści

A Note of Texts and Abbreviations Preface Introduction The 'strif of Thebes': Statius, Boccaccio, and Chaucer The Twin Necessity of Troilus and Criseyde The 'confusion of gentil wemen': Antiquity and the Short Side of History The 'Cherles Tale' and Chaucerian Modernity 'The sclaundre of Walter': The Clerk's Tale and the Problem of Hermeneutics Rewriting Menedon's Story: Decameron 10.5 and The Franklin's Tale Notes Index

O autorze

ROBERT R. EDWARDS is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of books on Chaucer, medieval drama, medieval literary theory, and the Italian poet Guido Guinizelli. He has edited the works of John Lydgate and essay collections on love, desire, and sexuality in the Middle Ages.