Herbert G. Wright

Boccaccio in England (eBook, PDF)

From Chaucer to Tennyson

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Professor Wright's objective is to see Boccaccio in relation to the personality of the writers to whom he appealed and simultaneously to observe the changing taste of successive ages as it was revealed by their choice among Bocccaccio's writings. Boccaccio was also a Eurpoean literary phenomenon, and this study attempts to consider his fortunes on the Continent. In considering Chaucer's relation to Boccaccio, the author examines Chaucer's poems afresh, studying the Italian originals closely in order to ascertain the precise nature of the English adaptation or transformation. Various minor figures of English literature are also dealt with at some length due to the importance of Boccaccio's influence on their work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 495
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472511041
• Artikelnr.: 40143794

Autorenporträt

Herbert G. Wright is Professor Emeritus of the University of Wales.

Inhaltsangabe

Cue-titles and Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter I. The Latin Works
1. De casibus virorum illustrium
2. De Claris mulieribus
3. De genealogia deorum
Chapter II. The Minor Italian Works
1. The Corbaccio, Ameto, and Amorosa Visione
2. The Teseida
3. The Filostrato
4. The Filocolo
5. Fiammetta
6. The Ninfale Fiesolano
Chapter III. The Decameron in the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth
Centuries
1. Tales in Verse derived through French and Latin
2. Tales in Verse derived from the Italian Text
3. Tales in Prose based on the French or Italian
4. Collections of Tales and Romances in Prose, derived from an unknown
Source
5. The Ballad
6. The Drama
Chapter IV. The Decameron in the Seventeenth Century
1. Collections of Tales in Prose and Verse
2. Individual Tales in Prose and Verse
3. The Drama
Chapter V. The Decameron in the Eighteenth Century
1. Tales in Verse
2. Tales in Prose
3. The Drama
Chapter VI. The Decameron in the Nineteenth Century
1. Comments on Boccaccio, more particularly on the Decameron
2. Tales in Verse
3. The Drama
Conclusion
Index