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Chaucer's Dante: Allegory and Epic Theater in The Canterbury Tales | 
 enlarge | Author: Richard Neuse
Publisher: University of California Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 2660649
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 332
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.5 x 1
ISBN: 0520072413
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.1
EAN: 9780520072411
ASIN: 0520072413
Publication Date: September 19, 1991
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Product Description
Richard Neuse here explores the relationship between two great medieval epics, Dante's Divine Comedy and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. He argues that Dante's attraction for Chaucer lay not so much in the spiritual dimension of the Divine Comedy as in the human.
Borrowing Bertolt Brecht's phrase "epic theater," Neuse underscores the interest of both poets in presenting, as on a stage, flesh and blood characters in which readers would recognize the authors as well as themselves. As spiritual autobiography, both poems challenge the traditional medieval mode of allegory, with its tendency to separate body and soul, matter and spirit. Thus Neuse demonstrates that Chaucer and Dante embody a humanism not generally attributed to the fourteenth century.
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