Framing Fiction with Death : 'The Seven Sages of Rome,' Boccaccio's 'Decameron,' and Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Lewis, Celia Milton.
Framing Fiction with Death : 'The Seven Sages of Rome,' Boccaccio's 'Decameron,' and Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 62: 2109A, 2001.
- Description
- The "Seven Sages," the "Decameron," and CT share, in addition to frame structure and historical milieux, a concern with death and avoidance of it (plague), a changing sense of time, and a new concept of authorial identity (especially Chaucer). The forms encourage order and verisimilitude.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.