Pictorial Allusion as a Distancing Technique from the Chaucerian Hypotext in "The Canterbury Tales."

Author / Editor
Lanzarini, Ilaria.

Title
Pictorial Allusion as a Distancing Technique from the Chaucerian Hypotext in "The Canterbury Tales."

Published
In Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, ed. Pasolini’s Lasting Impressions: Death, Eros, and Literary Enterprise in the Opus of Pier Paolo Pasolini (Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2018), pp. 177-90.

Description
Argues that, for Pasolini, "Chaucer presages the spiritual corruption of the nascent bourgeoisie" in the style and content of CT; yet, to "represent [the] spoiled fruits" of bourgeois corruption visually in "I racconti di Canterbury," the filmmaker emulated Pieter Bruegel’s paintings.

Contributor
Calabretta-Sajder, Ryan, ed.

Alternative Title
Pasolini’s Lasting Impressions: Death, Eros, and Literary Enterprise in the Opus of Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Chaucer Subjects
Recordings and Films
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion