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The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales. New Essays on an Old Question
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In this paper, the influence of the Decameron on the genesis and shape of the Canterbury Tales is examined in light of recurring critical resistance to the idea of the decameron as a text for Chaucer.Abstract:
Leading scholars of Chaucer and Boccaccio offer original, provocative answers to the question of the influence of the Decameron on the genesis and shape of the Canterbury Tales in light of recurring critical resistance to the idea of the Decameron as a text for Chaucer.read more
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New Books across the Disciplines
TL;DR: New Books across the Disciplines as mentioned in this paper is a bibliographic resource that facilitates a cross-disciplinary survey of recent publications, ranging from late antiquity to the seventeenth century.
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Chaucer's Dorigen and Boccaccio's Female Voices
TL;DR: The specific Boccaccian analogues for Chaucer Franklin's Tale have received detailed critical treatment as mentioned in this paper, and scholars consider Menedon's story in the Filocolo the likely source, and even though there is no absolute critical consensus that Chaucer knew the Decameron, the version of the story in that collection has nonetheless fruitfully been compared to Chaucer's tale.
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Redressing Griselda: Restoration through Translation in the Clerk's Tale
TL;DR: Chaucer's Clerk of Oxenford remarks on two separate occasions that he learned the story of Griselda from "Petrak" (IV 31, 1147), a statement corroborated by Chaucer's subsequent close reliance on Petrarch for the body of his tale.