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Chaucer and the tradition of the roman antique.
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Chaucer and the tradition of the roman antique.

Author: Barbara Nolan
Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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This is a detailed investigation of Chaucer's poetics in two of his master works.

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Named Person: Geoffrey Chaucer; Geoffrey Chaucer; Geoffrey Chaucer
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Barbara Nolan
ISBN: 9780521051002 0521051002
OCLC Number: 429028216
Description: xv, 391 p.: ill. 23 cm.
Contents: Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Benoit de Sainte-Maure's Roman de Troie and the compositional practices of the roman antique; 2. Plaits, debates, and judgments in the Roman de Thebes, the Roman de Troie and the Roman d'Eneas; 3. The poetics of fine amor in the French romans antiques; 4. From history into fiction: Boccaccio's Filostrato and the question of foolish love; 5. Boccaccio's Teseida and the triumph of Aristotelian virtue; 6. Saving the poetry: authors, translators, texts, and readers in Chaucer's Book of Troilus and Criseyde; 7. The consolation of Stoic virtue: Chaucer's Knight's Tale and the tradition of the roman antique; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Responsibility: Barbara Nolan

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