Chaucer, Boccaccio, Confession, and Subjectivity
- Author / Editor
- Ganim, John M.
Chaucer, Boccaccio, Confession, and Subjectivity
- 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. 128-47.
- Description
- Explores several of Chaucer's and Boccaccio's characters and how their autobiographical self-invention is both modern and tied to the past. The importance of confession in developing the sense of the individual is played out in the prologues and tales of CT, especially in WBT.
- Alternative Title
- Decameron and the Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.