Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Stories for an Uncertain World Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Stories for an Uncertain World
Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture

Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Stories for an Uncertain World

Agency in the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales

Robert W. Hanning
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Publisher Description

A comparative study of Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales that explores the differences and similarities between the worlds that are portrayed by each text, with a focus on the strategies and limits of personal agency, and the significance and social dynamics of story-telling.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2021
14 October
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
400
Pages
PUBLISHER
OUP Oxford
SIZE
3.2
MB

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