Carol Falvo Heffernan

Comedy in Chaucer and Boccaccio

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A comparison of Chaucer and Boccaccio sheds new light on both writers, indicating their mutual use of ancient comic literary traditions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9781843842019
• ISBN-10: 1843842017
• Artikelnr.: 26164291

Inhaltsangabe

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