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Chaucer,Boccaccio,and the debate of love

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English

 

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April 19, 2012

 

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Instead, Thompson focuses his comparison on the claims for the purpose and value of their work that both Chaucer and Boccaccio make, taking them more seriously perhaps than any other reader of one or both authors ever has. He attempts to show us that the Pauline excuse that 'all is written to instruct us' can be applied fully and literally to the entirety of both works, because always and everywhere both these writers intended to instruct their readers in how to live well by observing a virtuous mean...
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He attempts to show us that the Pauline excuse that 'all is written to instruct us' can be applied fully and literally to the entirety of both works, because always and everywhere both these writers intended to instruct their readers in how to live well by observing a virtuous mean. Anything in these works that does not exemplify virtue must be read allegorically, or as a negative example, or both: fiction provides an autonomous ground, a labyrinth, even a 'laboratory,' where the reader may learn skills of discernment and interpretation...
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