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The Decameron and the Canterbury tales : new essays on an old question

Title
  1. The Decameron and the Canterbury tales : new essays on an old question / edited by Leonard Michael Koff and Brenda Deen Schildgen.
Published by
  1. Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, c2000.

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Additional authors
  1. Koff, Leonard Michael.
  2. Schildgen, Brenda Deen, 1942-
Description
  1. 352 p.; 25 cm.
Subject
  1. Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
  2. Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 > Knowledge > Literature
  3. Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
  4. Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375 > Influence
  5. Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature
  6. Tales, Medieval > History and criticism
  7. English poetry > Italian influences
  8. Storytelling in literature
Contents
  1. Just say yes, Chaucer knew the Decameron: or, bringing the Shipman's tale out of limbo / Peter G. Beidler -- Chaucer's uncommon voice: some contexts for influence / Karla Taylor -- Local histories: characteristic worlds in the Decameron and the Canterbury tales / N.S. Thompson -- Boethius and the consolation of literature in Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury tales / Brenda Deen Schildgen -- Chaucer, Boccaccio, confession, and subjectivity / John M. Ganim -- Anticlericalism in Boccaccio and Chaucer: the bark and the bite / Linda Georgianna -- Custance and Ciappelletto in the middle of it all: problems of mediation in the Man of law's tale and Decameron 1.1 / Robert W. Hanning -- The Knight's tale and Trecento Italian historiography / James H. McGregor -- Rewriting Menedon's story: Decameron 10.5 and the Franklin's tale / Robert R. Edwards -- The monk's De casibus: the Boccaccio case reopened / Richard Neuse -- Imagining absence: Chaucer's Griselda and Walter without Petrarch / Leonard Michael Koff.
Call number
  1. JFE 00-4710
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 324-344) and index.
Title
  1. The Decameron and the Canterbury tales : new essays on an old question / edited by Leonard Michael Koff and Brenda Deen Schildgen.
Imprint
  1. Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, c2000.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 324-344) and index.
Added author
  1. Koff, Leonard Michael.
  2. Schildgen, Brenda Deen, 1942-
LCCN
  1. 99026113
ISBN
  1. 0838638007 (alk. paper)
Research call number
  1. JFE 00-4710
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