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Gross, Karen Elizabeth.

Missing histories: The absence of late medieval literature (Geoffrey Chaucer, Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Boccaccio, Italy).

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Title/Author:	Missing histories: The absence of late medieval literature (Geoffrey Chaucer, Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Boccaccio, Italy).
Author:	Gross, Karen Elizabeth.
Description:	251 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Seth Lerer.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-08, Section: A, page: 2925.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-08A.
Subject:	Literature, Medieval.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3186343
ISBN:	9780542285899

Missing histories: The absence of late medieval literature (Geoffrey Chaucer, Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Boccaccio, Italy).
Gross, Karen Elizabeth.

Missing histories: The absence of late medieval literature (Geoffrey Chaucer, Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Boccaccio, Italy). - 251 p.

Adviser: Seth Lerer.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2005.

Chapter 2 asks how our understanding of Chaucer's extant canon changes if we remind ourselves about his lost translation of Pseudo-Origen's De Maria Madgalena. Placing the Latin original in the context of Ovid's Heroides, Old French dit d'amoreux, and Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, I demonstrate in particular how Pseudo-Origen's homily would have modeled for Chaucer a way to absorb the Ovidian trope of female pathos into a Christian context.

ISBN: 9780542285899Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Literature, Medieval.

Missing histories: The absence of late medieval literature (Geoffrey Chaucer, Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Boccaccio, Italy).
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520 # $a Chapter 3 turns to the larger issue of how literary influence operates through omission. I identify some key differences between Petrarch and Boccaccio by examining the relative presence or absence of Dante in these writers' texts. I then present what I see as a puzzling paradox: that Chaucer was the most knowledgeable and perceptive reader of Italian texts, and yet he systematically rejected each of the literary innovations that would mark a coherent Italian literary tradition.
520 # $a I begin by identifying an unacknowledged source in a single text. Chapter 1 recognizes Boccaccio's De casibus virorum illustrium as deeply indebted to the Aeneid, especially Book 6. Reading the De casibus in a Virgilian context of familial piety reveals that, for Boccaccio, biography is the literary equivalent of the chantry chapel or the indulgence, a site of mediation between the living and the dead.
520 # $a My final chapter applies this hermeneutic of absence to the history of humanism. I argue in broad outline that overlooked are the crucial contributions of friars' to the renewed interest in antiquity and moral thought attributed to secular humanists. By focusing upon the exemplary life, I identify mendicant influence through innovations in hagiography, academic study of ancient ethics, and the novel rewritings of classical authors in order to provide pithy, educative anecdotes for sermons and commentaries. Thus the relationships between Latin-university and vernacular-lay cultures are closer and more fruitful than previously acknowledged; and the origins of early Italian humanism, with its renewed interest in classicism, epideictic rhetoric, and moral philosophy, derive in part from this late-medieval biographical mode.
520 # $a This dissertation models different ways that absence can be a productive source of inquiry in medieval literary studies.
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