Chaucer's "House of Fame" and Its Boccaccian Intertexts: Image, Vision, and the Vernacular.
- Author / Editor
- McKinley, Kathryn.
Chaucer's "House of Fame" and Its Boccaccian Intertexts: Image, Vision, and the Vernacular.
- Published
- Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2016.
- Physical Description
- vii, 228 pp.
- Description
- Analyzes Boccaccio's impact on Chaucer in HF. Presents literary history of Boccaccio's "Amorosa vision" and descriptions of Chaucer's trips to Italy, and claims that "Chaucer tries out an array of Boccaccian approaches to Dantean questions and problems" in HF.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations