Kara Gaston

Reading Chaucer in Time

Literary Formation in England and Italy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book tracks how concepts of reading developed within Italian texts (including Dante's Vita nova, Boccaccio's Filostrato and Teseida, and Petrarch's Seniles) impress themselves upon Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and Canterbury Tales.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780198852865
• ISBN-10: 019885286X
• Artikelnr.: 58407938

Autorenporträt

Kara Gaston is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include late medieval English and Italian literature, Chaucer, reception of the Classics in the Middle Ages, poetry and poetics, form and formalisms, vernacular translation, gloss and commentary, and medieval astronomy.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Reading for Formation
* Form and Formation in the Vita nuova, the Filostrato, and Troilus and
Criseyde
* The Lady at the Pyre: Writing Readers in the Thebaid, Teseida, and
Knight's Tale
* Learning in Time: The Decameron, Historia Griseldis, and Clerk's Tale
* Assembling Forms: The Metamorphoses, Filocolo, and Franklin's Tale
* How Much is Enough in the Monk's Tale? Setting Boundaries in Humanist
Biography
* Afterword: When is the House of Fame?