Tropes of engagement : Chaucer's Italian poetics of intertextuality / Leah Schwebel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schwebel, Leah, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Criticism and interpretation.

Chaucer, Geoffrey.

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375--Criticism and interpretation.

Boccaccio, Giovanni.

English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Italian poetry--14th century--History and criticism.

Italian poetry.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)--History--To 1500.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2024.

Summary:

Exploring the work of Chaucer and Boccaccio, Tropes of Engagementredefines our understanding of textual influence by examining modes, rather than evidence, of authorial engagement.

"While scholars have long explored connections between Chaucer and Boccaccio, relatively few have asked why Chaucer makes such a habit of obscuring the influence of his favourite vernacular author. Tropes of Engagement asks the question of what motivated Chaucer to camouflage his debt to his most prominent, yet never named, Italian source: Giovanni Boccaccio. Leah Schwebel boldly claims that when Chaucer erases Boccaccio, he is mimicking strategies of translation practiced by his classical and continental predecessors. Tracing popular narratives from antiquity to the late Middle Ages, including the Knight's Tale, the Clerk's Tale, the Monk's Tale, Troilus and Criseyde, and Lydgate's Fall of Princes and Troy Book, Schwebel argues that authorial erasure, invention, and manipulation are recognizable literary tropes of engagement that poets employ to suggest their connection to, and place within, a broader authorial tradition. Combining an attention to the cultural, historical, and material circumstances surrounding literary production with a mode of source study that looks beyond discernable influence, Tropes of Engagement recognizes authors self-consciously erasing and misreading each other as part of a process of mutual and self-promotion."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Literary Patricide in the Legend of Thebes

Restoration through Translation in the "Clerk's Tale"

Power in Flux: Chaucer's Triumphal "Monk's Tale"

Myn Auctor Lollius: Chaucer and the Invention of Troy

Chaucer through the Looking Glass: Lydgate's Chaucerian Poetics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1487552629

9781487552626

1487552610

9781487552619

OCLC:

1416092019