Author: N. S. Thompson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Author: N. S. Thompson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198186465
Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Although the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales have often been linked, this is the first ever major study of the two most popular medieval collections of framed narratives to examine the texts as a whole. The present study goes well beyond shared general similarities and the inconclusive search for source or analogue material in order to look at the internal dynamics of each text and the surprising similarities that emerge there in terms of theories of literature, authority and authorship and the particular reader response envisaged by their authors.

Author: O. Classe
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781884964367
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 930

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Author: R. Edwards
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403907242
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 205

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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.

Author: Warren Ginsberg
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472112340
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Explores provocative questions about the dynamics of cross-cultural translation and the formation of tradition

Author: Robert M. Correale
Publisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 9780859918282
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 646

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"This edition ... contains the sources and major analogues of Chaucer's works (some re-edited from manuscripts closer to his own copies) together with discoveries from the past half-century, some of which have not previously appeared together in print. Special features in this new enterprise include a fresh interpretation of Chaucer's sources for the frame of the work, and modern English translations of all non-English texts; chapters on the individual tales contain an updated survey of the present state of scholarship on their source material".--BOOKJACKET.

Author: David B. Raybin
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271035673
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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"Eleven essays that explore how modern scholarship interprets Chaucer's writings"--Provided by publisher.

Author: Elisabeth Salter
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754654407
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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In this innovative study, Elisabeth Salter reconstructs the lives of six men and women of the early Renaissance and leads us on a quest to reconstruct their lost cultural worlds.The six men and women are all figures from the margins of the royal courts during the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII. This book will appeal to historians of the late-medieval period and the Renaissance, and will serve as an exemplary model to scholars of biographical reconstruction.

Author: Leonard Michael Koff
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780838638002
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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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.

Author: William T. Rossiter
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843842157
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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First full study of Chaucer's readings and translations of Petrarch suggests a far greater influence than has hitherto been accepted.