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Lediglich der Schutzumschlag ist leicht berieben. Sonst aber ein sehr gutes und sauberes Exemplar/ Only the dust jacket is slightly rubbed. But otherwise a very good and clean copy. - Richard Neuse here explores the relationship between two great medieval epics, Dante's Divine Comedy and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. He argues that Dante's attraction for Chaucer lay not so much in the spiritual dimension of the Divine Comedy as in the human. Borrowing Bertolt Brecht's phrase "epic theater," Neuse underscores the interest of both poets in presenting, as on a stage, flesh-and-blood characters in which readers would recognize the authors as well as themselves. As spiritual autobiography, both poems challenge the traditional medieval mode of allegory, with its tendency to separate body and soul, matter and spirit. Thus Neuse demonstrates that Chaucer and Dante embody a humanism not generally attributed to the fourteenth century.ncl CONTENT: The Question of Genre: The Canterbury Tales as Dantean Epic Allegory: The Canterbury Tales and Dantean Allegory (Geryon and the Nun�s Priest�s Tale) Epic Theater: The Comedy and The Canterbury Tales (The Knight and the Miller) Chaucerian Intertextuality: The Monk�s Tale and the Inferno The Friar and the Summoner: Chaucerian Contrapasso The Clerk�s Tale: A Chaucerian �Poetics of Conversion� The Merchant�s Tale: Allegory in the Mirror of Marriageant�s Tale: Allegory in the Mirror of Marriagetter?. ISBN 9780520072411