The Genius to Improve an Invention: Literary Transitions
- Author / Editor
- Boitani, Piero.
The Genius to Improve an Invention: Literary Transitions
- Published
- Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2002.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 151 pp.
- Description
- Assesses Chaucer's adaptations of his sources and his influences on later tradition, examining his uses of Dante in TC (Paolo and Francesca, idea of gentility, and Paradiso 33) and tracing the transformations of the characters of KnT (particularly Palamon and Arcite) through Boccaccio, Chaucer, Shakespeare and Fletcher, and Dryden.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Knight and His Tale.
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.