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Ancient Traditions
Author_Carol Falvo Heffernan
Boccaccio
Canterbury Tales
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Characters
Chaucer
Comedy
Comic Literary Tradition
Decameron
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Fabliaux
Inventiveness
Product details
- ISBN 9781843842019
- Weight: 400g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 17 Sep 2009
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Professor Carol F Heffernan is Professor at the Department of English, Rutgers University, New York.
