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Trade and Romance

Trade and Romance Comparative Literature 67:4 © 2015 by University of Oregon Published by Duke University Press Comparative Literature COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 446 the travels of Marco Polo and the stories of drugged assassins--the reality behind them is fascinating to read, and one of the best things in the book--to Chaucer's Squire's Tale and Boiardo's "Aristocratic Response to Mercantilism," which captures the gist of the book throughout. The intricate networks of trade, extending over vast but traversable distances of some of the most forbidding terrain on earth, were the dark foundations for the light-asair tales of romance. In the second part the scene shifts south to the Indian Ocean with an account of the romance of Huon of Bordeaux, and once again the most fantastic episodes are shown to have a basis in reality, and in geography. Dhows plying the Indian Ocean were constructed with wooden pegs instead of nails, and from this fact grew the legend of a magnetic island that drew all ships to itself--because of the nails in them (92). The longest discussion in this part is of the one epic poem of the Renaissance that told of real events in a mostly realistic way, boasting that the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Comparative Literature Duke University Press

Trade and Romance

Teskey, Gordon
Comparative Literature , Volume 67 (4) – Dec 1, 2015
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Comparative Literature 67:4 © 2015 by University of Oregon Published by Duke University Press Comparative Literature COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 446 the travels of Marco Polo and the stories of drugged assassins--the reality behind them is fascinating to read, and one of the best things in the book--to Chaucer's Squire's Tale and Boiardo's "Aristocratic Response to Mercantilism," which captures the gist of the book throughout. The intricate networks of trade, extending over vast but traversable distances of some of the most forbidding terrain on earth, were the dark foundations for the light-asair tales of romance. In the second part the scene shifts south to the Indian Ocean with an account of the romance of Huon of Bordeaux, and once again the most fantastic episodes are shown to have a basis in reality, and in geography. Dhows plying the Indian Ocean were constructed with wooden pegs instead of nails, and from this fact grew the legend of a magnetic island that drew all ships to itself--because of the nails in them (92). The longest discussion in this part is of the one epic poem of the Renaissance that told of real events in a mostly realistic way, boasting that the

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Published: Dec 1, 2015

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