Dante, Chaucer and the Currency of the Word: Money, Image, and Reference in Late Medieval Poetry
- Author / Editor
- Shoaf, Richard Allen.
Dante, Chaucer and the Currency of the Word: Money, Image, and Reference in Late Medieval Poetry
- Published
- Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1983.
- Description
- After an introduction, "The Discourse of Man 'By Nature a Political Animal,'" follow three parts: "Dante's 'Commedia' and the Promise of Reference," dealing with Narcissus--damned ("Inferno" 30), purged ("Purgatorio" 30), and redeemed ("Paradiso" 30); "Troylus and Criseyde and the 'Falsing' of the Referent," with chapters on HF, Criseyde, Troylus, Pandarus, and the Narrator; and "'The Canterbury Tales' and the Ethics of Reference," with chapters on Fragment A, WBT, MerT, and PardT.
- Shows how Chaucer uses Dante and how he differs.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.