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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495865103321

Autore

Neuse Richard

Titolo

Chaucer's Dante : allegory and epic theater in the Canterbury tales / / Richard Neuse [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1991

ISBN

0-585-33541-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 295 p. )

Disciplina

821/.1

Soggetti

Allegory

Epic poetry, English - Italian influences

Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature

Tales, Medieval - History and criticism

Allegory - Italian influences

Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature - History and criticism

Epic poetry, English

Tales, Medieval

English

Languages & Literatures

English Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-280) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Question of Genre: The Canterbury Tales as Dantean Epic -- Allegory: The Canterbury Tales and Dantean Allegory (Geryon and the Nun's Priest's Tale) -- Epic Theater: The Comedy and The Canterbury Tales (The Knight and the Miller) -- Chaucerian Intertextuality: The Monk's Tale and the Inferno -- The Friar and the Summoner: Chaucerian Contrapasso -- The Clerk's Tale: A Chaucerian "Poetics of Conversion" -- The Merchant's Tale: Allegory in the Mirror of Marriage.