Tearing or Breathing: Dante's Influence on 'Filostrato' and 'Troilus'
- Author / Editor
- Havely, Nicholas (R.)
Tearing or Breathing: Dante's Influence on 'Filostrato' and 'Troilus'
- Published
- Paul Strohm and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1, 1984 (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1985), pp. 51-59.
- Description
- The development of literary imagery and language in TC, book 3, reveals the distinctiveness of Chaucer's approach to Dante's "Purgatorio;" Chaucer's power and control over the language far exceed Boccaccio's in the "Filostrato."
- Alternative Title
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1 (1984)
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.