The Decameron and the Canterbury tales
Subtitle: new essays on an old question
By: edited by Leonard Michael Koff and Brenda Deen Schildgen.
Contributors: Koff, Leonard Michael.; Schildgen, Brenda Deen, 1942-
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Madison, [N.J.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.; Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 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.
Description: "What was the influence of the Decameron on the genesis and shape of the Canterbury Tales? In this collection, leading scholars of Chaucer and Boccaccio offer original, provocative answers to this question in light of recurring critical resistance to the idea of the Decameron as a text for Chaucer.

That resistance, informed by a model of literary influence grounded on the idea of interruption, would keep the Canterbury Tales away from the Decameron, though not the rest of Chaucer from other works by Boccaccio. In the end, of course, that resistance tells us more about Chaucer's reception since the fifteenth century than about Chaucer himself or his sources."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 324-344) and index.