Chaucer's Dante : allegory and epic theater in the Canterbury tales / Richard Neuse
Berkeley : University of California Press, 1991. 1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #426778
ISBN: 0520072413
Physical description; xi, 295 pages. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-280) and index. Contents; The Question of Genre: The Canterbury Tales as Dantean Epic -- Allegory: The Canterbury Tales and Dantean Allegory (Geryon and the Nun's Priest's Tale) -- Epic Theater: The Comedy and The Canterbury Tales (The Knight and the Miller) -- Chaucerian Intertextuality: The Monk's Tale and the Inferno -- The Friar and the Summoner: Chaucerian Contrapasso -- The Clerk's Tale: A Chaucerian "Poetics of Conversion" -- The Merchant's Tale: Allegory in the Mirror of Marriage. Subjects; Chaucer, Geoffrey -1400. Canterbury tales. Chaucer, Geoffrey -1400 Knowledge Literature. Dante Alighieri 1265-1321 Influence. Epic poetry, English. Tales, Medieval. English. Languages & Literatures. English Literature. Allegory. Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature. Epic poetry, English Italian influences. Tales, Medieval History and criticism. Allegory Italian influences. Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature History and criticism.
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