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Comedy in Chaucer and Boccaccio

By Heffernan, Carol Falvo

Comedy in Chaucer and Boccaccio Contemporary literature

Comedy in Chaucer and Boccaccio

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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 comic tales, 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.
Product details
Number of Pages:
168
Release Date:
2009-09-17
Publication Date:
2009-09-17
Publisher:
D.S.Brewer
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1843842017
ISBN13:
9781843842019
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
423 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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