Invention and Disjunction: Chaucer's Rewriting of Boccaccio in the Franklin's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Finlayson, John.
Invention and Disjunction: Chaucer's Rewriting of Boccaccio in the Franklin's Tale
- Published
- English Studies 89 (2008): 385-402.
- Description
- In FranT, Chaucer reshapes the source material found in Boccaccio's "Filocolo" and "Decameron," adding the "pre-story" of a courtly love marriage, increasing the pathos of Dorigen, undercutting Arveragus's "self-serving" views of honor and truth, and leaving the final question unanswered. Chaucer amplifies and humanizes the "story of the Rash Promise" and "casts into question the 'unreal' literary world of the demande d'amour."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations