The Orient in Chaucer and medieval romance /
The Orient is a major motif in Chaucer and medieval romance and this study reveals much about its use and significance, offering fresh readings of a number of texts. These include the legend of Constance, where the mercantile details of the eastern Mediterranean reinforce the setting; the portraits...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jezik: | engleski |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY :
D.S. Brewer
2003.
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| Serija: | Studies in medieval romance.
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| Online pristup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt81mfb |
Sadržaj:
- Introduction: Romance and the Orient
- Mercantilism and faith in the Eastern Mediterranean: Chaucer's Man of Law's tale, Boccaccio's Decameron 5, 2, and Gower's Tale of Constance
- Two Oriental queens from Chaucer's Legend of Good Women: Cleopatra and Dido
- Chaucer's Squire's Tale: content and structure
- A question of incest, the double, and the theme of East and West: The middle English romance of Floris and Blauncheflur
- Le Bone Florence of Rome and the East.