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""In Tropes of Engagement, Leah Schwebel cannily discovers in what may seem a mere eyebrow-raising curiosity - Chaucer's ostentatious silence regarding his enormous debt to Boccaccio - a portal into the very heart of the paradoxical dynamics of literary tradition. With its series of erudite, nuanced readings, the book makes an essential contribution to the study of Chaucer's Trecento heritage and, more generally, the history of literary authorship.""--Robert Meyer-Lee, Professor of English, Agnes Scott College ""In splendid close analysis of the ways Classical and medieval writers treat history, fame, and their precursors, Leah Schwebel situates Chaucer in a line of authors from Ovid and Statius to Petrarch and Lydgate who proclaim their own accomplishment by discounting the contributions of their immediate predecessors. Schwebel demonstrates how Chaucer's famous elision of Boccaccio fits into this tradition, reflecting Chaucer's deep engagement both with this most important source and with Boccaccio's own antecedents.""--David Raybin, Editor, The Chaucer Review ""Elegantly written and cogently argued, this engrossing exploration of Chaucer's use of techniques of erasure, invention, and manipulation to position himself within a venerable literary tradition has been fifteen years in the making. It proves to have been well worth the wait.""--Richard Firth Green, Professor of English Emeritus, The Ohio State University

"""In Tropes of Engagement, Leah Schwebel cannily discovers in what may seem a mere eyebrow-raising curiosity - Chaucer's ostentatious silence regarding his enormous debt to Boccaccio - a portal into the very heart of the paradoxical dynamics of literary tradition. With its series of erudite, nuanced readings, the book makes an essential contribution to the study of Chaucer's Trecento heritage and, more generally, the history of literary authorship.""--Robert Meyer-Lee, Professor of English, Agnes Scott College ""In splendid close analysis of the ways Classical and medieval writers treat history, fame, and their precursors, Leah Schwebel situates Chaucer in a line of authors from Ovid and Statius to Petrarch and Lydgate who proclaim their own accomplishment by discounting the contributions of their immediate predecessors. Schwebel demonstrates how Chaucer's famous elision of Boccaccio fits into this tradition, reflecting Chaucer's deep engagement both with this most important source and with Boccaccio's own antecedents.""--David Raybin, Editor, The Chaucer Review ""Elegantly written and cogently argued, this engrossing exploration of Chaucer's use of techniques of erasure, invention, and manipulation to position himself within a venerable literary tradition has been fifteen years in the making. It proves to have been well worth the wait.""--Richard Firth Green, Professor of English Emeritus, The Ohio State University"

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Leah Schwebel is an associate professor of English at Texas State University.

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