Chaucer and the Tradition of the Roman Antique

Bibliographic Data

ID23502826
AuthorsBarbara Nolan (University of Virginia, corresponding author)
Year2009
Publication date2009-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueChaucer and the Tradition of the Roman Antique (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511552991
OpenAlexW2079707785
ISBN9780511552991
Open LibraryOL34437334M
LanguageEN
Citations received5

This is a detailed investigation of Chaucer's poetics in Troilus and Criseyde and the Knight's Tale in relation to an important continental narrative tradition. It is the first such wide-ranging study since Charles Muscatine's seminal Chaucer and the French Tradition and the first book to argue in detail that Chaucer's poems, Boccaccio's Filostrato and Teseida and the twelfth-century French romans antiques participate in a distinct formal tradition within the protean field of medieval romance. By close examination of the formal and ethical designs of each poem, Barbara Nolan explores both the compositional practices shared by all of the poets she discusses, and their calculated differences from each other. Her analysis culminates in a full examination of Chaucer's richly original response to the continental verse narratives from which he borrowed. No other study offers so full and careful a delineation of the compositional features that distinguish the roman antique from other forms of romance in the Middle Ages.

Antique · Art · Boccaccio · compositional practice · Filostrato · Geoffrey Chaucer · Knight · literary tradition · Literature · medieval romance · Middle English narrative poetry · Narrative · Poetics · Poetry · Relation (database) · Romance · Teseida · The Knight's Tale · Troilus and Criseyde · Visual arts · Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies · History · Medieval European Literature and History · Medieval Literature and History