Chaucer, Boccaccio, and the debate of love : a comparative study of the Decameron and the Canterbury...
Chaucer, Boccaccio, and the debate of love : a comparative study of the Decameron and the Canterbury tales / N.S. Thompson.
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Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Date
1996.
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N821.1/C496.1/158
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Language
English
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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.
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Publisher
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
1996.
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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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Chaucer, Boccaccio, and the debate of love : a comparative study of the Decameron and the Canterbury tales / N.S. Thompson.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [324]-349) and index.
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N821.1/C496.1/158
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74VvpGZdEdvA
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ISBN
0198123787
9780198123781
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821.1
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991005312579702626