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The Decameron and the Canterbury tales : new essays on an old question

Title
The Decameron and the Canterbury tales : new essays on an old question / edited by Leonard Michael Koff and Brenda Deen Schildgen.
Publication
Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, c2000.

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Additional Authors
  • Koff, Leonard Michael.
  • Schildgen, Brenda Deen, 1942-
Description
352 p.; 25 cm.
Subject
  • Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
  • Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 > Knowledge > Literature
  • Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
  • Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375 > Influence
  • Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature
  • Tales, Medieval > History and criticism
  • English poetry > Italian influences
  • Storytelling in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 324-344) and index.
Contents
Just say yes, Chaucer knew the Decameron: or, bringing the Shipman's tale out of limbo / Peter G. Beidler -- Chaucer's uncommon voice: some contexts for influence / Karla Taylor -- Local histories: characteristic worlds in the Decameron and the Canterbury tales / N.S. Thompson -- Boethius and the consolation of literature in Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury tales / Brenda Deen Schildgen -- Chaucer, Boccaccio, confession, and subjectivity / John M. Ganim -- Anticlericalism in Boccaccio and Chaucer: the bark and the bite / Linda Georgianna -- Custance and Ciappelletto in the middle of it all: problems of mediation in the Man of law's tale and Decameron 1.1 / Robert W. Hanning -- The Knight's tale and Trecento Italian historiography / James H. McGregor -- Rewriting Menedon's story: Decameron 10.5 and the Franklin's tale / Robert R. Edwards -- The monk's De casibus: the Boccaccio case reopened / Richard Neuse -- Imagining absence: Chaucer's Griselda and Walter without Petrarch / Leonard Michael Koff.
Call Number
JFE 00-4710
ISBN
0838638007 (alk. paper)
LCCN
99026113
OCLC
41096219
Title
The Decameron and the Canterbury tales : new essays on an old question / edited by Leonard Michael Koff and Brenda Deen Schildgen.
Imprint
Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, c2000.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 324-344) and index.
Added Author
Koff, Leonard Michael.
Schildgen, Brenda Deen, 1942-
Research Call Number
JFE 00-4710
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