Chaucer and the Tradition of the Roman Antique

by Barbara Nolan and Barbara Nolan

Book Overview

This is a detailed investigation of Chaucer's poetics in Troilus and Criseyde and the Knight's Tale in relation to an important continental narrative tradition. It is the first such wide-ranging study since Charles Muscatine's seminal Chaucer and the French Tradition and the first book to argue in detail that Chaucer's poems, Boccaccio's Filostrato and Teseida and the twelfth-century French romans antiques participate in a distinct formal tradition...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521051002
• ISBN13: 9780521051002
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"