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Chaucer's Decameron and the Origin of the Canterbury Tales

Author : Frederick M. Biggs
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843844753
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer's Decameron and the Origin of the Canterbury Tales written by Frederick M. Biggs and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major and original contribution to the debate as to Chaucer's use and knowledge of Boccaccio, finding a new source for the "Shipman's Tale". A possible direct link between the two greatest literary collections of the fourteenth century, Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, has long tantalized readers because these works share many stories, which are, moreover, placed in similar frames. And yet, although he identified many of his sources, Chaucer never mentioned Boccaccio; indeed when he retold the Decameron's final novella, his pilgrim, the Clerk, states that it was written by Petrarch. For these reasons, most scholars now believe that while Chaucer might have heard parts of the earlier collection when he was in Italy, he did not have it at hand as he wrote. This volumeaims to change our understanding of this question. It analyses the relationship between the "Shipman's Tale", originally written for the Wife of Bath, and Decameron 8.10, not seen before as a possible source. The book alsoargues that more important than the narratives that Chaucer borrowed is the literary technique that he learned from Boccaccio - to make tales from ideas. This technique, moreover, links the "Shipman's Tale" to the "Miller's Tale"and the new "Wife of Bath's Tale". Although at its core a hermeneutic argument, this book also delves into such important areas as alchemy, domestic space, economic history, folklore, Irish/English politics, manuscripts, and misogyny. FREDERICK M. BIGGS is Professor of English at the University of Connecticut.

The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales

Author : Leonard Michael Koff
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780838638002
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales written by Leonard Michael Koff and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2000 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Decameron

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1040 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (418 download)

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Download or read book The Decameron written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-07 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the time of a devastating pandemic, seven women and three men withdraw to a country estate outside Florence to give themselves a diversion from the death around them. Once there, they decide to spend some time each day telling stories, each of the ten to tell one story each day. They do this for ten days, with a few other days of rest in between, resulting in the 100 stories of the Decameron. The Decameron was written after the Black Plague spread through Italy in 1348. Most of the tales did not originate with Boccaccio; some of them were centuries old already in his time, but Boccaccio imbued them all with his distinctive style. The stories run the gamut from tragedy to comedy, from lewd to inspiring, and sometimes all of those at once. They also provide a detailed picture of daily life in fourteenth-century Italy.

Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Stories for an Uncertain World

Author : Robert W. Hanning
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192894757
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Stories for an Uncertain World written by Robert W. Hanning and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative study of Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales that explores the differences and similarities between the worlds that are portrayed by each text, with a focus on the strategies and limits of personal agency, and the significance and social dynamics of story-telling.

Chaucer, Boccaccio, and the Debate of Love

Author : N. S. Thompson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198186465
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer, Boccaccio, and the Debate of Love written by N. S. Thompson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Stories from Quarantine

Author : The New York Times
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982170816
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Stories from Quarantine written by The New York Times and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Previously published as The decameron project."

Social Chaucer

Author : Paul Strohm
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674811997
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Social Chaucer written by Paul Strohm and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text analyzes the effect of Chaucer's poetry on his contemporary readers, examining how he and his audience understood their society and how this is reflected in the works. This book provides a fuller understanding of Chaucer's world and the social implications of literary styles and form.

Comedy in Chaucer and Boccaccio

Author : Carol Falvo Heffernan
Publisher : D. S. Brewer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comedy in Chaucer and Boccaccio written by Carol Falvo Heffernan and published by D. S. Brewer. This book was released on 2009 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Clerkes Tale

Author : Chaucer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Clerkes Tale written by Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chaucer's Boccaccio

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780859913492
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (134 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer's Boccaccio written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1992 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `The notes are a model of economy... The introduction is quite superb... The volume as a whole is a worthy addition to a series which has already begun to establish high expectations.' TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT`It reminds us just how good Boccaccio is.' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENTChaucer made extensive use of Boccacio's romances as a basis for his major works, and any analysis of his handling of his sources must depend on a knowledge of the Italian poet's work.

Holdout

Author : Graham Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781409196808
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Holdout written by Graham Moore and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Plunge a syringe filled with adrenaline into the heart of Twelve Angry Men and you've got The Holdout: the first legal thriller in thirty years - ever since Presumed Innocent and A Time to Kill electrified readers the world over - to rank alongside those two modern classics.' AJ Finn'The most gripping and satisfying thriller I've read in more than a decade' Sophie Hannah'Quite the tour de force! Twelve Angry Men meets Chinatown and creates something of its own' Sarah Pinborough'This is a tense, emotionally charged, scary-good, stand-out read that hooked me until the last page' Caroline KepnesOne juror changed the verdict. What if she was wrong?'Ten years ago we made a decision together...'Fifteen-year-old Jessica Silver, heiress to a billion-dollar fortune, vanishes on her way home from school. Her teacher, Bobby Nock, is the prime suspect. It's an open and shut case for the prosecution, and a quick conviction seems all but guaranteed. Until Maya Seale, a young woman on the jury, persuades the rest of the jurors to vote not guilty: a controversial decision that will change all of their lives forever.Ten years later, one of the jurors is found dead, and Maya is the prime suspect.The real killer could be any of the other ten jurors. Is Maya being forced to pay the price for her decision all those years ago?

The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer

Author : Piero Boitani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107494648
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer written by Piero Boitani and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-12 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer is an extensively revised version of the first edition, which has become a classic in the field. This new volume responds to the success of the first edition and to recent debates in Chaucer Studies. Important material has been updated, and new contributions have been commissioned to take into account recent trends in literary theory as well as in studies of Chaucer's works. New chapters cover the literary inheritance traceable in his works to French and Italian sources, his style, as well as new approaches to his work. Other topics covered include the social and literary scene in England in Chaucer's time, and comedy, pathos and romance in the Canterbury Tales. The volume now offers a useful chronology, and the bibliography has been entirely updated to provide an indispensable guide for today's student of Chaucer.

The Idea of the Canterbury Tales

Author : Donald R. Howard
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520312775
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Idea of the Canterbury Tales written by Donald R. Howard and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.

Chaucer's Dream Poetry

Author : Barry A. Windeatt
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0859910725
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (599 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer's Dream Poetry written by Barry A. Windeatt and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1982 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume makes available in translation the texts that lie behind Chaucer's dream poems - The Book of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls, The House of Fame and Prologue to the Legend of Good Women. Chaucer's dream poems are now being increasingly studied and appreciated. With their attractively bookish dreamer figure and their graceful use of conventions and traditions, they have their distinctive place in Chaucer's work. But the nodern reader of these medieval poems particularly needs a sense of their literary context in the tradition of comparable narrative poems - largely in OId French - which Chaucer knew and drew upon. None of these French poems has ever been made available in English translation before, and many of the texts are difficult to access, being available only in dated French scholarly editions. The authors represented are Froissart, Machaut and Deschamps, as well as some minor and anonymous poems, and there are also relevant translations from Cicero and Boccaccio. The book gives an idea of what Chaucer's sources were in themselves, and in what ways the English poet was inspired to use and go beyond them, and this presents a picture of the poet at work. Some of the French poems are translated carefully by Chaucer, while with other poems he is selective, interested in certain sections of his sources only. In further cases, the original material can be seen to have provided a more general point of departure for Chaucer's own developments on his work.

Il Filocolo

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : Scholarly Title
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Il Filocolo written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by Scholarly Title. This book was released on 1985 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Selections from the Decameron

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781853266188
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book Selections from the Decameron written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Few Crusted Characters

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781484802076
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book A Few Crusted Characters written by Thomas Hardy and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a Saturday afternoon of blue and yellow autumn time, and the scene is the High Street of a well-known market-town. A large carrier's van stands in the quadrangular fore-court of the White Hart Inn, upon the sides of its spacious tilt being painted, in weather-beaten letters: 'Burthen, Carrier to Longpuddle.' These vans, so numerous hereabout, are a respectable, if somewhat lumbering, class of conveyance, much resorted to by decent travellers not overstocked with money, the better among them roughly corresponding to the old French diligences.