Allegories of Contamination: Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Trilogy of Life"

Author / Editor
Rumble, Patrick.

Title
Allegories of Contamination: Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Trilogy of Life"

Published
Toronto and Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, 1996.

Physical Description
xxvi, 207 pp. ; 20 b&w illus.

Description
The films "The Decameron," "Canterbury Tales," and "The Arabian Knights" make up Pasolini's "Trilogy," here explored for how the films reflect understanding of the literary works from which they derive--in particular, how Pasolini's "Abiura," or recantation, recalls and parodies Chaucer's Ret.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
Chaucer's Retraction.