| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 359 pages) |
| Series |
Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture |
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Oxford studies in medieval literature and culture.
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| Contents |
Introduction. Having the World by the Tale: A new comparative reading of the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales; A note on the text of the Canterbury Tales -- 1: Mapping the uncertain world Texts and contexts; The historical lineage and cultural breeding grounds of pragmatic prudence; Aristotle, Cicero, and the centrality of (moral) Prudence; The cultural parturition of an amoral prudence: three possible stimuli; Governance; Commerce; Institutional religion; Narrative antecedents; Fabulation: the triple challenge; Why tell? The function of the fabula in the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales; The mimetic topography of an uncertain world -- 2: Fortuna, Fama, and the challenge to agency; Fortuna; Fama -- 3: Can you trust the sign?: Uncertainty of signification, comprehension, and perception; Introduction; Language; Cosyn/cozzen; The instability of signifying systems; Decameron 3.2--destabilizing signs: "king for a night," or, the royal rod strikes again; "The Reeve's Tale": what the cradle will rock (or, "who's been sleeping in MY bed?") -- 4: The uncertainty of Intention; Introduction; Decameron 3.3: the confessor as go-between; Decameron 8.7: men and women behaving badly; The Wife of Bath, apostle of uncertainty; Authorities; Sexual contradictions: parody/exposure/seeking to outrage; Timothy; Jankyn; Postlude: the Pardoner makes the scene -- 5: Power; Introduction; Part 1: Phallic imprudence, or, Patriarchal power and the primal fear; Decameron 4.1: tragic agency; Part 2: the power of desire; Decameron 2.7: the power of desire, refracted through commerce and politics; "The Miller's Tale": Goddes pryvetee and the nye slye; "Goddes pryvetee": domesticating the cosmic and the prisoners of genre; When worlds collide: the clashing terrains of public and private desire in "The Miller's Tale." |
| Summary |
A comparative study of Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales that explores the differences and similarities between the worlds that are portrayed by each text, with a focus on the strategies and limits of personal agency, and the significance and social dynamics of story-telling |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 22, 2021) |
| Subject |
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. Decamerone.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Canterbury tales.
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| SUBJECT |
Canterbury tales (Chaucer, Geoffrey) fast |
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Decamerone (Boccaccio, Giovanni) fast |
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Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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Agent (Philosophy) in literature.
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Uncertainty in literature.
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Storytelling in literature.
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Agent (Philosophy) in literature
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Literature, Medieval
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Storytelling in literature
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Uncertainty in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192647610 |
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019264761X |
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9780191915635 |
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0191915637 |
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9780192647627 |
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0192647628 |
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