| Before the Knight's Tale: Imitation of Classical Epic in Boccaccio's Teseida Contributor(s): Anderson, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 081228108X ISBN-13: 9780812281088 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 1988 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Renaissance - Poetry | European - Italian - Language Arts & Disciplines |
| Dewey: 851.1 |
| LCCN: 88004739 |
| Lexile Measure: 1530 |
| Series: Middle Ages Series |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.28 lbs) 282 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |