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Chaucer, Boccaccio, and the Debate of Love - A Comparative Study of The Decameron and The Canterbury Tales (Hardcover, New)
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Chaucer, Boccaccio, and the Debate of Love - A Comparative Study of The Decameron and The Canterbury Tales (Hardcover, New)
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Although the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales have often been
linked, this is the first ever major study of the two most popular
medieval collections of framed narratives to examine the texts as a
whole. The present study goes well beyond shared general
similarities and the inconclusive search for source or analogue
material in order to look at the internal dynamics of each text and
the surprising similarities that emerge there in terms of theories
of literature, authority and authorship and the particular reader
response envisaged by their authors. 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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