Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Stories for an Uncertain World: Agency in the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales

by Robert W Hanning

Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Stories for an Uncertain World understands the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales to communicate a radical uncertainty haunting most human endeavors, one that challenges effective knowledge of the future, the past, or the distant present; accurate perception of both complex, equivocal signifying systems, including language, and the intentions hidden rather than revealed by the words and deeds of others; and successful strategy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192894757
• ISBN13: 9780192894755
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.4"