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Chaucer, Boccaccio, and the debate of love : a comparative study of the Decameron and the Canterbury tales / N.S. Thompson.

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Full title

Chaucer, Boccaccio, and the debate of love : a comparative study of the Decameron and the Canterbury tales / N.S. Thompson.

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Publisher

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

Date

1996.

Call Numbers

N821.1/C496.1/158

Record Identifier

74VvpGZdEdvA

MMS ID

991005312579702626

Language

English

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Physical Description

Physical content

354 p. ; 23 cm.

Contents

1. Diversity, Choice and Mean -- 2. Reading the Signs -- 3. The Literary Debate -- 4. The Autonomy of Fiction -- 5. The Comic Tales: Fabliaux of Novelle? -- 6. The Romances: Noble and Ignoble Love -- 7. The Three Griseldas.

Publication information

Publisher

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

1996.

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Scope and Contents

Summary

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 t...

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Full title

Chaucer, Boccaccio, and the debate of love : a comparative study of the Decameron and the Canterbury tales / N.S. Thompson.

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Notes

General note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [324]-349) and index.

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Call Numbers

N821.1/C496.1/158

Record Identifier

74VvpGZdEdvA

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvpGZdEdvA

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ISBN

0198123787

9780198123781

DDC

821.1

MMS ID

991005312579702626

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