{"product_id":"chaucers-italian-tradition-warren-stuart-ginsberg-9780472112340","title":"Chaucer's Italian Tradition","description":"In his latest book, Warren Ginsberg explores what he calls Chaucer's \"Italian tradition,\" a discourse that emerges by viewing the social institutions and artistic modes that shaped Chaucer's reception of Dante, Boccaccio, and Petrarch. While offering a fresh look at one of England's great literary figures, this book addresses important questions about the dynamics of cross-cultural translation and the formation of tradition.\u003cbr\u003eBecause divergent political, municipal, and literary histories would have made the Italian cities--Genoa, Florence, and Milan--unfamiliar to an English poet from medieval London, Ginsberg argues that we must consider what Chaucer overlooked and mistook from his Italian models alongside the material he did appropriate. To make sense of premises in texts like Dante's \u003ci\u003eComedy\u003c\/i\u003e that were peculiarly Italian, Chaucer would look to Boccaccio as a gloss; by reading these authors in conjunction with one another, Chaucer generates an \"Italian tradition\" that translates into the terms of his English experience works already mediated by a prior stage of transposition.\u003cbr\u003eGinsberg explores Chaucer's relationship to Italian poets not in terms of the interaction of individual talents with accredited authorities (Chaucer and Dante, Boccaccio and Petrarch, etc.). Rather, he focuses on the shifts in tension that occur when the civic engagements and disengagements of Florence's poets are brought into contact with Chaucer's growing metropolitanism and increasing reluctance to make London the locus of his poetic art.\u003cbr\u003eBeyond its appeal to medievalists and those who study the Renaissance, Chaucer's \u003ci\u003eItalian Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e will be welcomed by readers interested in theoretical questions about translation and the development of tradition, including individuals who study history, literature, and the nature of the humanities.\u003cbr\u003eWarren Ginsberg is Professor of English, University of Oregon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Warren Stuart Ginsberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472112341\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472112340\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/10\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.34h x 6.48w x 1.21d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2002 pg. 98","brand":"Warren Stuart Ginsberg","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49096683520255,"sku":"9780472112340","price":94.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/chaucers-italian-tradition-warren-stuart-ginsberg-9780472112340","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}