Chaucer's Formal Histories: Temporality and Intertextuality from the Italian Trecento to 'Troilus and Criseyde' and 'The Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Gaston, Kara.

Title
Chaucer's Formal Histories: Temporality and Intertextuality from the Italian Trecento to 'Troilus and Criseyde' and 'The Canterbury Tales'

Published
DAI A75.01 (2014): n.p.

Description
Considers vernacular change and development in Chaucer's work through the lens of a suggested parallel to fourteenth-century Italian poetry that "inspired scribes and translators to develop sophisticated methods of using form to reflect historical, lexical, and cultural difference between past and present."

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Troilus and Criseyde
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Franklin and His Tale