Before Chaucer's 'Shipman's Tale': The Language of Place, the Place of Language in 'Decameron' 8.1 and 8.2
- Author / Editor
- Hanning, Robert W.
Before Chaucer's 'Shipman's Tale': The Language of Place, the Place of Language in 'Decameron' 8.1 and 8.2
- Published
- Laura Howe, ed. Place, Space, and Landscape in Medieval Narrative (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007), pp. 181-96.
- Description
- Compares and contrasts how Boccaccio's two analogues to ShT evoke differing senses of locale and the signifying potential of language.
- Alternative Title
- Place, Space, and Landscape in Medieval Narrative.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Shipman and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations