Chaucer Reads the 'Divine Comedy'
- Author / Editor
- Taylor, Karla Terese.
Chaucer Reads the 'Divine Comedy'
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 44 (1983): 1449A.
- Description
- In TC, Chaucer subverts "The Divine Comedy": Paolo and Francesca's seduction by literature is metamorphosed to bookishness; Dante's self-authentication contrasts with the narrator's character in TC; and Dante's imagery and allegorical cosmos are countered by proverbs and antiromantic language.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.