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Chaucer, Boccacio, and the Debate of Love: A Comparative Study of the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales »
Authors: N. S. Thompson
ISBN-13: 9780198123781, ISBN-10: 0198123787
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: November 1996
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: N. S. Thompson
Book Synopsis
In this study, Thompson explores the links between the two most popular collections of medieval narrative. Looking at the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales in their entirety, Thompson reveals many surprising similarities—ranging from the way they discuss fiction to their treatment of it—which have, until now, remained unnoticed.
Table of Contents
| List of Abbreviations | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | Diversity, Choice and Mean | 8 |
| 2 | Reading the Signs | 43 |
| 3 | The Literary Debate | 88 |
| 4 | The Autonomy of Fiction | 136 |
| 5 | The Comic Tales: Fabliaux of Novelle? | 176 |
| 6 | The Romances: Noble and Ignoble Love | 225 |
| 7 | The Three Griseldas | 279 |
| Conclusion | 313 | |
| Bibliography | 324 | |
| Index | 351 |
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