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A comparison of Chaucer and Boccaccio sheds new light on both writers, indicating their mutual use of ancient comic literary traditions.
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 comictales, 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.
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 comictales, 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.
Price: $95.00
Pages: 166
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: D.S.Brewer
Publication Date:
17 September 2009
Trim Size: 9.21 X 6.14 in
ISBN: 9781843842019
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval
Carol Falvo Heffernan's achievement is to have written a full and balanced synthesis while extending the discussion to a comparative evaluation of Boccaccio's writing. [Her] study will provoke much further debate.
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introductory Matters
The Comic Inheritance of Boccaccio and Chaucer
Parallel Comic Tales in the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales
Antifraternal Satire
Boccaccio's Filostrato and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: Adding Comedy
Conclusion
Bibliography
Introductory Matters
The Comic Inheritance of Boccaccio and Chaucer
Parallel Comic Tales in the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales
Antifraternal Satire
Boccaccio's Filostrato and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: Adding Comedy
Conclusion
Bibliography