Chaucer, Boccaccio, and the Debate of Love: A Comparative Study of the Decameron and the Canterbury TalesOxford University Press, 1999 - 354 pagina's The two collections are examined in the light of their literary diversity, their shape as a form of quodlibet debate, their discussion of literature and its autonomy, using the oppositions of utile-diletto and 'sentence'-'solaas', and in the specific way that individual narratives are treated so as to create a labyrinthine web for the reader both to negotiate and to enjoy. This is the fullest attempt yet to demonstrate the weight of evidence linking Chaucer's work to the Decameron and to disprove the stance, take early this century, that Chaucer was not directly indebted to it. |
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Chaucer, Boccaccio, and the Debate of Love: A Comparative Study of the ... N. S. Thompson Fragmentweergave - 1996 |
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