Description: Tropes of Engagement : Chaucer's Italian Poetics of Intertextuality, Hardcover by Schwebel, Leah, ISBN 1487552602, ISBN-13 9781487552602, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US While scholars have long explored connections between Chaucer and Boccaccio, relatively few have asked why Chaucer makes such a habit of obscuring the influence of his favourite vernacular author. Tropes of Engagement asks the question of what motivated Chaucer to camouflage his debt to his most prominent, yet never named, Italian source: Giovanni Boccaccio. Leah Schwebel boldly claims that when Chaucer erases Boccaccio, he is mimicking strategies of translation practiced by his classical and continental predecessors. Tracing popular narratives from antiquity to the late Middle Ages, including the Knight’s Tale, the Clerk’s Tale, the Monk’s Tale, Troilus and Criseyde, and Lydgate’s Fall of Princes and Troy Book, Schwebel argues that authorial erasure, invention, and manipulation are recognizable literary tropes of engagement that poets employ to suggest their connection to, and place within, a broader authorial tradition. Combining an attention to the cultural, historical, and material circumstances surrounding literary production with a mode of source study that looks beyond discernable influence, Tropes of Engagement recognizes authors self-consciously erasing and misreading each other as part of a process of mutual and self-promotion.
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Book Title: Tropes of Engagement : Chaucer's Italian Poetics of Intertextuali
Number of Pages: 326 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Tropes of Engagement : Chaucer's Italian Poetics of Intertextuality
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Subject: Medieval, European / Italian
Publication Year: 2024
Item Height: 1.2 in
Item Weight: 20.8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Leah Schwebel
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Literary Collections
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Hardcover
