Chaucer, Boccaccio, and the Anxiety of Popularity
- Author / Editor
- Ganim, John M.
Chaucer, Boccaccio, and the Anxiety of Popularity
- Published
- Assays 4 (1986): 51-66.
- Description
- Popular understanding of their works is a central issue in both Boccaccio and Chaucer. Boccaccio's urbanity and sophistication reflect the qualities of his cultured, mercantile audience. Chaucer (e.g., PardT) is only apparently more naive, working with the materials of popular culture but writing for a courtly audience.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Pardoner and his Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.