Petrarch's Pleasures, Chaucer's Revulsions, and the Aesthetics of Renunciation in Late-Medieval Culture
- Author / Editor
- Galloway, Andrew.
Petrarch's Pleasures, Chaucer's Revulsions, and the Aesthetics of Renunciation in Late-Medieval Culture
- Published
- Frank Grady and Andrew Galloway, eds. Answerable Style: The Idea of the Literary in Medieval England (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2013), pp. 140-68.
- Description
- Explores a relationship between "late-medieval aesthetics and renunciation" in ClT and establishes differences between Petrarch's and Chaucer's treatments of the Griselda story. Points out that Chaucer's Clerk challenges both Petrarch's "absolutist" and his "aesthetic values."
- Alternative Title
- Answerable Style: The Idea of the Literary in Medieval England.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations