Style, Iconography and Narrative: The Lesson of the 'Teseida'

Author / Editor
Boitani, Piero.

Title
Style, Iconography and Narrative: The Lesson of the 'Teseida'

Published
Piero Boitani, ed. Chaucer and the Italian Trecento (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), pp. 185-99.

Description
Examines Chaucer's style, iconography, and adaptations from the "Teseida" in HF, Anel, TC, KnT, LGW, and FranT. Chaucer's method is metonymic; Boccaccio's is metaphorical.

Alternative Title
Chaucer and the Italian Trecento.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.