Chaucer, Boccaccio and the Debate of Love: A Comparative Study of the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales

ISBN-13: 9780198123781 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 368 str.

N. S. Thompson

Opis

In this study, Thompson explores the links between the two most popular collections of medieval narrative. Looking at the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales in their entirety, Thompson reveals many surprising similarities--ranging from the way they discuss fiction to their treatment of it--which have, until now, remained unnoticed.

Recenzje

concise contextualization is one of the main virtues of this book ... The close reading and comparison of individual tales and groups of tales is mostly cogent and well balanced ... this is a useful, engaging, and often eloquent work that should help both industrious students and busy professors of medieval studies to clarify, if not to resolve, one of Chaucer's most enduring and labyrinthine 'enigmas'.