Title: Chaucer, Boccaccio, and the debate of love : a comparative study of the Decameron and the Canterbury tales /
Authors: Thompson, N. S.
Publisher: Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Chaucer, Geoffrey,; Boccaccio, Giovanni,; Chaucer, Geoffrey,; Boccaccio, Giovanni,; Canterbury tales (Chaucer, Geoffrey); Decamerone (Boccaccio, Giovanni); Comparative literature English and Italian.; Comparative literature Italian and English.; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature.; Narration (Rhetoric) History; Tales, Medieval History and criticism.; Debate poetry History and criticism.; Storytelling in literature.; Rhetoric, Medieval.; Love in literature; Litt�erature compar�ee Moyen anglais et italien.; P�elerinages chr�etiens dans la litt�erature.; Contes m�edi�evaux Histoire et critique.; D�ebat (Litt�erature) Histoire et critique.; Art de conter dans la litt�erature.; Narration.; Rh�etorique m�edi�evale.; Amour dans la litt�erature.; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature.; Comparative literature English and Italian; Comparative literature Italian and English; Debate poetry; Love in literature.; Narration (Rhetoric); Rhetoric, Medieval.; Storytelling in literature.; Tales, Medieval.; The Canterbury Tales (Chaucer); Decamerone (Boccaccio)
Abstract: Although the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales have often been linked, this is the first ever major study of the two most popular medieval collections of framed narratives to examine the texts as a whole. The present study goes well beyond shared general similarities and the inconclusive search for source or analogue material in order to look at the internal dynamics of each text and the surprising similarities that emerge there in terms of theories of literature, authority and authorship and the particular reader response envisaged by their authors.
Contents: Diversity, choice, and mean -- Reading the signs -- The literary debate -- The autonomy of fiction -- The comic tales : fabliaux of novelle? -- The romances : noble and ignoble love -- The three Griseldas.