Imagining Absence: Chaucer's Griselda and Walter Without Petrarch
- Author / Editor
- Koff, Leonard Michael.
Imagining Absence: Chaucer's Griselda and Walter Without Petrarch
- Published
- Leonard Michael Koff and Brenda Deen Schildgen, eds. The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question (Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000), pp. 278-316.
- Description
- Examines what the relationship between The Clerk's Tale and Decameron 10.10 might be without the intervening sources: Petrarch's "De insigni obedientia et fide uxoris" and its French translation, "Le livre Griseldis." Chaucer does not reduce the characters and events of the story to allegory or to simple narrative. Rather, he uses fiction to figure theology by inscribing the difficulties of figural reading and moral analysis within the Tale.
- Alternative Title
- Decameron and the Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.