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To The Space Beside Me, Betsy Johnson-Miller
To The Space Beside Me, Betsy Johnson-Miller
English Faculty Publications
Read a short interview with the author at http://underthegumtree.com/2013/02/meet-the-author-betsy-johnson-2/
Community And Other Ordinary Miracles, Mara Faulkner Osb
Community And Other Ordinary Miracles, Mara Faulkner Osb
English Faculty Publications
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Chaucer's Clerk's Tale And Boccaccio's Decameron X.10, Jessica Harkins
Chaucer's Clerk's Tale And Boccaccio's Decameron X.10, Jessica Harkins
English Faculty Publications
Many readers find that Chaucer's Clerk's Tale profoundly critiques Petrarch's methods of translation, but hesitate to claim that Chaucer knew the text Petrarch was translating: Boccaccio's version of the Griselda story from the Decameron. This hesitation goes back to J. Burke Severs's assertion that Chaucer did not know Boccaccio's text. David Wallace began to undermine this argument by drawing attention to shared textual traits of these two versions of the story, but only John Finlayson has advanced the case directly against Severs by arguing that Boccaccio must be a source. What has perhaps most prevented a shift in our reading …