Robert R. Edwards, Chaucer and Boccaccio: Antiquity and Modernity.(Book Review)

From: Medium Aevum | Date: September 22, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

(Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002). xv + 205 pp. ISBN 0333-97008-X. $45.00.

Recently interest in Chaucer's relation to Italian literary models has shifted decisively toward Boccaccio. Reconceiving the relation in social, cultural, and philosophical terms, some scholars have also renounced the caution toward the Decameron inspired by absence of direct evidence for Chaucer's access and reading. They have taken it as a model for the Canterbury, Tales both in form and in the use of literary discourse for cultural analysis. Most broadly, their work registers the shift of critical ...

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