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Chaucer and Boccaccio: Antiquity and Modernity

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2002
ISBN
033397008X, 9780333970089
LCC
PR1912.B6 E39 2002
Open Library ID
OL3953073M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1525336 bytes)
Pages
205\221
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

In the late Middle Ages, Chaucer invents two imaginative domains crucial to his culture and understanding of the emergence of selfhood, subjectivity, and social arrangements; antiquity and late-medieval modernity. Robert Edwards demonstrates in this study how this was the result of Chaucer's reading and re-writing of the works of Boccaccio, which provides sources and models for portraying the classic past and medieval modernity. In so doing, Edwards provides us with a valuable way of assessing Chaucer's analysis of late medieval culture.

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