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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 …
Spirits, Vitality, And Creation In The Poetics Of Tommaso Campanella And John Donne, Anthony P. Russell
Spirits, Vitality, And Creation In The Poetics Of Tommaso Campanella And John Donne, Anthony P. Russell
English Faculty Publications
In discussions over the meaning of "genius" in the Renaissance, there is at the very least agreement that the term was associated with heightened powers of perception and creativity. Whether defined in terms of Neoplatonic notions of inspiration, Aristotelian/Galenic theories of the humors (and of melancholy in particular), or rhetorical theories of invention, ingegno is acknowledged as having denoted an unusual mental energy and flexibility which facilitated the creative process. It is the psychic mobility with which ingegno was consistently linked that I intend to emphasize here, and in particular its frequent identification with those volatile spirits that were centrally …
The Power Behind The Pronoun: Narrative Games In Calvino's If On A Winter's Night, A Traveler, Inge Fink
The Power Behind The Pronoun: Narrative Games In Calvino's If On A Winter's Night, A Traveler, Inge Fink
English Faculty Publications
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Romancing The Reader: Calvino's If On A Winter's Night A Traveler, Carl D. Malmgren
Romancing The Reader: Calvino's If On A Winter's Night A Traveler, Carl D. Malmgren
English Faculty Publications
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