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Dante, Chaucer, and the Currency of
the Word:
Money, Images, and Reference in Late Medieval Poetry
R. A. Shoaf
Copyright © and Published 1983 (Pilgrim Books): Postprint 1995.
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Preliminaries
Introduction
Introduction: The Discourse of Man "By Nature a Political Animal"
Part One: Dante's Commedia and the Promise of Reference
One Introduction: Narcissus and the Poet
Two Narcissus Damned, or the Failure of Reference (Inferno 30)
Three Narcissus Purged, or the Renewal of Reference (Purgatorio 30)
Four Narcissus Redeemed, or Transference Crowns Reference (Paradiso 30)
Part Two: Troilus and Criseyde and the "Falsing" of the Referent
Five A brief Visit to The House of Fame
Six Criseyde
Seven Troilus
Eight Pandarus
Nine The Narrator
Part Three: The Canterbury Tales and the Ethics of Reference
Ten Introduction: Fragment A and the Versions of the Household
Eleven The Wife of Bath and the Mediation of "Privitee"
Twelve The Merchant and the Parody of Creation
Thirteen The Pardoner and the Word of Death
Conclusion
Bibliography (1983)
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