Tropes of engagement Chaucer's Italian poetics of intertextuality Chaucer's Italian poetics of intertextuality Schwebel, Leah creator author. text bibliography Criticism, interpretation, etc. History onc 2024 monographic eng print xiii, 311 pages ; 24 cm "While scholars have long explored connections between Chaucer and Boccaccio, relatively few have asked why Chaucer makes such a habit of obscuring the influence of his favourite vernacular author. Tropes of Engagement asks the question of what motivated Chaucer to camouflage his debt to his most prominent, yet never named, Italian source: Giovanni Boccaccio. Leah Schwebel boldly claims that when Chaucer erases Boccaccio, he is mimicking strategies of translation practiced by his classical and continental predecessors. Tracing popular narratives from antiquity to the late Middle Ages, including the Knight's Tale, the Clerk's Tale, the Monk's Tale, Troilus and Criseyde, and Lydgate's Fall of Princes and Troy Book, Schwebel argues that authorial erasure, invention, and manipulation are recognizable literary tropes of engagement that poets employ to suggest their connection to, and place within, a broader authorial tradition. Combining an attention to the cultural, historical, and material circumstances surrounding literary production with a mode of source study that looks beyond discernable influence, Tropes of Engagement recognizes authors self-consciously erasing and misreading each other as part of a process of mutual and self-promotion."-- Literary Patricide in the Legend of Thebes -- Restoration through Translation in the "Clerk's Tale" -- Power in Flux: Chaucer's Triumphal "Monk's Tale" -- Myn Auctor Lollius: Chaucer and the Invention of Troy -- Chaucer through the Looking Glass: Lydgate's Chaucerian Poetics. Leah Schwebel. Issued also in electronic format. Includes bibliographical references and index. Chaucer, Geoffrey -1400 Criticism and interpretation Boccaccio, Giovanni 1313-1375 Influence Boccaccio, Giovanni 1313-1375 Chaucer, Geoffrey -1400 English poetry Middle English, 1100-1500 History and criticism Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) History To 1500 Poésie anglaise 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) Histoire et critique English poetry Middle English Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) To 1500 fast PR1924 .S39 2024 821/.1 821/.1 cci1icc Tropes of engagement Schwebel, Leah. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2024 (OCoLC)1416092019 9781487552602 1487552602 pda,print NLC 231007 20250318214115.5 in00005466270 eng