Re-Telling Old Stories: Chaucer’s Italian Poetics of Intertextual Commentary.

Author / Editor
Schwebel, Leah A.

Title
Re-Telling Old Stories: Chaucer’s Italian Poetics of Intertextual Commentary.

Published
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Connecticut, 2014. Fully accessible via https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/dissertations/406 (accessed April 3, 2026).

Physical Description
iii, 150 pp.

Description
Focuses on KnT, ClT, and MkT to demonstrate that Chaucer "models his treatment" of his source-authors--Boccaccio and Petrarch--"on their own strategies of intertextual play," arguing that "intertextual engagement goes beyond mere imitation, and can include the erasure and manipulation of previous works."

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations\
Knight and His Tale
Clerk and His Tale
Monk and His Tale