Before the Knight's Tale: Imitation of Classical Epic in Boccaccio's Teseida by Anderson, David

Before the Knight's Tale: Imitation of Classical Epic in Boccaccio's Teseida (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780812281088)

Vendor: David Anderson
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
$95.00
$95.00
$95.00
Subtotal: $95.00
Before the Knight's Tale: Imitation of Classical Epic in Boccaccio's Teseida by Anderson, David

Before the Knight's Tale: Imitation of Classical Epic in Boccaccio's Teseida

$95.00
Before the Knight's Tale: Imitation of Classical Epic in Boccaccio's Teseida by Anderson, David

Before the Knight's Tale: Imitation of Classical Epic in Boccaccio's Teseida

$95.00
Format: Hardcover
Description
Description
x
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.

Author: David Anderson
ISBN-10: 081228108X
ISBN-13: 9780812281088
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary
Language: English
Published: 07/29/1988
Pages: 282
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d

Recently Viewed Products