Cloak and Dagger: Chaucer, Borges and Eco
- Author / Editor
- Davis, Carmel Brendon.
Cloak and Dagger: Chaucer, Borges and Eco
- Published
- Estela Valverde, ed. A Universal Argentine: Jorge Luis Borges, English Literature and Other Inquisitions (Sydney: Southern Highlands Press, 2009), pp. 105-14.
- Description
- Investigates the validity of Jorge Louis Borges' claim (1949) that Chaucer effected or recorded the "definitive shift from allegory to novel" when translating a line from Boccaccio's "Teseida" in his KnT. Davis focuses on the "slipperiness of language" as a concern in KnT and in Borges' writing generally, and comments on Umberto Eco's embedding of the concern in his "The Name of the Rose."
- Contributor
- Valverde, Estela, ed.
- Alternative Title
- A Universal Argentine: Jorge Luis Borges, English Literature and Other Inquisitions.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
- Knight and His Tale
- Language and Word Studies
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations