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Robert
R. Edwards.
Chaucer and Boccaccio: Antiquity and Modernity.
Basingstoke:
Palgrave, 2002.
224pp.
Hardback ISBN
033397008X.
Publisher's
recommended price £47.50
In
the
late Middle
Ages, Chaucer invents two imaginative domains crucial to his culture
and
to our understanding of the emergence of selfhood, subjectivity and
social
arrangements; antiquity and late-medieval modernity. Edwards
demonstrates
in this study how this was the result of Chaucer's reading and
re-writing
of the works of Boccaccio, which provide sources and models for
portraying
the classical past and medieval modernity. In so doing, Edwards
provides
us with a valuable way of assessing Chaucer's analysis of late medieval
culture.
Contents:
Introduction;
The 'strif of Thebes': Statius, Boccaccio, and Chaucer; The Twin
Necessity
of Troilus and Criseyde; The 'confusion of gentil wemen': Antiquity and
the Short Side of History; The 'Cherles Tale' and Chaucerian Modernity;
'The sclaundre of Walter': The Clerk's Tale and the Problem of
Hermeneutics;
Rewriting Menedon's Story: Decameron 10.5 and The Franklin's
Tale;
Notes; Index.
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