Geoffrey Chaucer’s "The Merchant’s Tale", Giovanni Boccaccio’s "The Tale of the Enchanted Pear-Tree", and "Sir Orfeo" Viewed as Eroticized Versions of the Folktales about Supernatural Wives
Two of the tales mentioned in the title are in many ways typical of the great collections of stories (The Canterbury Tales and Il Decamerone) to which they belong. What makes them conspicuous is no doubt the intensity of the erotic desire presented as the ultimate law which justifies even the most o...
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Lodz University Press
2013-11-01
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| Series: | Text Matters |
| Online Access: | https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/textmatters/article/view/6940 |