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Before the "Knight's Tale" : Imitation of Classical Epic in Boccaccio's "Teseida" / David Anderson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Middle Ages SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©1988Description: 1 online resource (282 p.) : 4 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812281088
  • 9781512800067
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 851/.1
LOC classification:
  • PQ4270.T43A54 1988
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Imitation of the Main Action -- 2. The Alternate Ending -- 3. Boccaccio’s Model of Epic Narrative -- 4. Imitation of the Thebaid in the Knight’s Tale -- Appendixes -- Indexes
Summary: The focus of Before the Knight's Tale is the transformation of Statius's Thebaid into Boccaccio's Teseida and Chaucer's subsequent reshaping of this rich literary tradition in the Knight's Tale. David Anderson examines Boccaccio's imitative art in its historical context, defining his model of classical epic and his imitative strategy in the Teseida. Two medieval prologues to the Thebaid, with a series of Boccaccio's own glosses on a passage in Thebaid 7, are made available for the first time in the appendixes.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Imitation of the Main Action -- 2. The Alternate Ending -- 3. Boccaccio’s Model of Epic Narrative -- 4. Imitation of the Thebaid in the Knight’s Tale -- Appendixes -- Indexes

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The focus of Before the Knight's Tale is the transformation of Statius's Thebaid into Boccaccio's Teseida and Chaucer's subsequent reshaping of this rich literary tradition in the Knight's Tale. David Anderson examines Boccaccio's imitative art in its historical context, defining his model of classical epic and his imitative strategy in the Teseida. Two medieval prologues to the Thebaid, with a series of Boccaccio's own glosses on a passage in Thebaid 7, are made available for the first time in the appendixes.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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