Reading the Language of Love: Boccaccio's 'Filostrato' as Intermediary Between the 'Commedia' and Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Reale, Nancy M.
Reading the Language of Love: Boccaccio's 'Filostrato' as Intermediary Between the 'Commedia' and Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- James J. Paxson and Cynthia A. Gravlee, eds. Desiring Discourse: The Literature of Love, Ovid Through Chaucer (Selinsgrove, Penn.: Susquehanna University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1998), pp. 165-76.
- Description
- In TC, Chaucer poses a tension between "Boccaccio's interest in the persuasive powers of linguistic skills to create private realities" and Dante's depiction of poetry as a means to transcendent enlightenment. This tension makes TC a poem "that appears to speak against itself."
- Alternative Title
- Desiring Discourse: The Literature of Love, Ovid Through Chaucer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.