Italy
- Author / Editor
- Edwards, Robert R.
Italy
- Published
- Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Contemporary Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010), pp. 3-24.
- Description
- Reconsiders Chaucer's use of Italian sources and his references to Italy and Italian regions (including Rome), focusing on ways that Italy was a geographical and cultural place of strangeness. Authors such as Chaucer and Gower negotiated tensions between strangeness and familiarity. Edwards comments on Chaucer's journeys to Italy (including surmises about an early trip in 1368) and considers how the "multiform contexts of literary influences" complement traditional "comparative and intertextual studies" and encourage consideration of how Italian influences were "transmitted in more than one language."
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer: Contemporary Approaches.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Language and Word Studies
- Chaucer's Life