Boethius and the Consolation of Literature in Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Schildgen, Brenda Deen.
Boethius and the Consolation of Literature in Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- 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. 102-27.
- Description
- Through authorial intrusions into their texts, Boccaccio and Chaucer defend vernacular fiction as legitimate consolation and a necessary cultural medium. In doing so, both enter into a dialogue with Boethius. Schildgen discusses CT, in particular SNP.
- Alternative Title
- Decameron and the Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Second Nun and Her Tale.