Carol Falvo Heffernan

Comedy in Chaucer and Boccaccio (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Although many of Chaucer's sources have been exhaustively studied, relatively little work has been done on the influence of his contemporary Boccaccio, a gap which this book aims to fill. It examines the relationship of the comictales, the so-called fabliaux, in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Boccaccio's Decameron, demonstrating that not only did Chaucer draw on Boccaccio's work, but that they shared the same comic literary tradition stretching back into antiquity. By putting the tales and the characters side-by-side, it throws new light on Chaucer's inventiveness and mode of working.

Professor CAROL FALVO HEFFERNAN teaches at the Department of English, Rutgers University, New Jersey.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781846157035
• Artikelnr.: 68308117

Autorenporträt

Carol Falvo Heffernan

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