Fiction and Religion in Boccaccio and Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Howard, Donald R.
Fiction and Religion in Boccaccio and Chaucer
- Published
- Journal of the American Academy of Religion 47.2, Supplement : 307-28, 1979.
- Description
- Howard compares TC with Il Filostrato and CT with Decameron, focusing on how Chaucer adapts Boccaccio's uses of conventions to engage his audience. In Boccaccio, fiction enables the audience to escape from a contemptible world, whereas Chaucer--more the humanist--defends literary experience as a confrontation of human values. If literature has done no more good than religion for humankind, it has also done less harm.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Canterbury Tales--General
- Troilus and Criseyde