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Comedy in Chaucer and Boccaccio (Chaucer Studies, 40) (Volume 40) Hardcover – September 17, 2009

by Carol Falvo Heffernan (Author)
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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.
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    166 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    D.S.Brewer
  4. Publication date
    September 17, 2009
  5. Dimensions
    6.5 x 0.25 x 9.25 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1843842017
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1843842019
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Carol Falvo Heffernan's achievement is to have written a full and balanced synthesis while extending the discussion to a comparative evaluation of Boccaccio's writing. [Her] study will provoke much further debate. ― MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW

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Professor Carol F Heffernan is Professor at the Department of English, Rutgers University, New York.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ D.S.Brewer (September 17, 2009)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 166 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1843842017
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1843842019
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.1 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 0.25 x 9.25 inches

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