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Comedy in Chaucer and Boccaccio (Chaucer Studies) (Chaucer Studies, 40) by Carol Falvo Heffernan is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>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 comic tales, 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.</p>

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Author

Carol Falvo Heffernan

Publisher

D.S. Brewer

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781846157035

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction