Before the "Knight's Tale": Imitation of Classical Epic in Boccaccio's "Teseida"
David AndersonThe 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.
Rok:
2018
Wydawnictwo:
University of Pennsylvania Press
Język:
english
Strony:
282
ISBN 10:
1512800066
ISBN 13:
9781512800067
Plik:
PDF, 18.38 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2018