The Italian Background to Chaucer's Epic Similes
- Author / Editor
- Anderson, David.
The Italian Background to Chaucer's Epic Similes
- Published
- Annali d'Italianistica 12 (1994): 15-38.
- Description
- Argues that Chaucer's similes cannot be explained in terms of imitation of Dante and Boccaccio or direct imitation of classical models. Instead, following the example of Dante and Boccaccio, Chaucer practiced a "poetics of vernacularization," imitating the "well-articulated model of the rhetorical form" of the simile as defined in the Italian tradition of Ciceronian rhetoricical form" of the simile as defined in the Italian tradition of Ciceronian rhetoric.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Style and Versification.