Chaucer s Dante 1st Edition by Richard Neuse ISBN 978-0520348738 0520348737

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ISBN 10:  0520348737

ISBN 13: 978-0520348738

Author:  Richard Neuse

Richard Neuse here explores the relationship between two great medieval epics, Dante’s Divine Comedy and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. He argues that Dante’s attraction for Chaucer lay not so much in the spiritual dimension of the Divine Comedy as in the human.

Borrowing Bertolt Brecht’s phrase “epic theater,” Neuse underscores the interest of both poets in presenting, as on a stage, flesh and blood characters in which readers would recognize the authors as well as themselves. As spiritual autobiography, both poems challenge the traditional medieval mode of allegory, with its tendency to separate body and soul, matter and spirit. Thus Neuse demonstrates that Chaucer and Dante embody a humanism not generally attributed to the fourteenth century.

This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.

Table of contents: 

1 Introduction

2 The Question of Genre: The Canterbury Tales as Dantean Epic

3 Allegory: The Canterbury Tales and Dantean Allegory (Geryon and the Nun’s Priest’s Tale)

4 Epic Theater: The Comedy and The Canterbury Tales (The Knight and the Miller)

5 Chaucerian Intertextuality: The Monk’s Tale and the Inferno

6 The Friar and the Summoner: Chaucerian Contrapasso

7 The Clerk’s Tale: A Chaucerian “Poetics of Conversion”

8 The Merchant’s Tale: Allegory in the Mirror of Marriage

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