Department of Italian
KENNETH CLARKE
Recent Publications:
Current research
- Kenneth is contributing a chapter entitled 'Florence', to Europe: A Literary History, 1347-1418, ed. David Wallace, 2 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
- Kenneth is currently preparing his DPhil thesis, "I shal fynde it in a maner glose: Commentary and Hermeneutics, Chaucer and His Italian Sources", for publication.
- Kenneth is currently co-editing a volume of proceedings from the Fourth Oxford Graduate Medieval Conference, Lincoln College Oxford, April 11-12, 2008. On Light: Aspects and Approaches, to be published in the monographs series of Medium Ævum.
Contributions
- "Boccaccio", "Envoi", "Invocations", "Laura", "Petrarch", The Facts on File Companion to Pre-1600 British Poetry, ed. by Michelle M. Sauer (New York: Facts on File, 2008)
- 'Reading/Writing Griselda: A Fourteenth Century Response (Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, MS Plut. 42,1)', in On Allegory: Some Medieval Aspects and Approaches, ed. by Mary Carr, K P Clarke and Marco Nievergelt (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008), pp. 183-208.
Books
- Chaucer and Italian Textuality, Oxford English Monographs (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011). 248 pp. ISBN: 978-0-19-960777-8.
Edited books
- On Allegory: Some Medieval Aspects and Approaches with Mary Carr and Marco Nievergelt (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008). A collection of essays drawn from the 2005 Lincoln College Conference; articles include a survey introduction by Prof. E.G. Stanley, and an afterword by Prof. Vincent Gillespie.
Articles
- 'Chaucer and Italy: Contexts and/of Sources', in Literature Compass�8 (2011). Forthcoming.
- Taking the Proverbial: Reading (at) the Margins of Boccaccio's Corbaccio', in Studi sul Boccaccio�32 (2010), 105-144. ISSN: 0585-4997.
- 'Eagles Mating with Doves: Troilus and Criseyde II. 925-931, Inferno V and Purgatorio IX', Notes & Queries 53 (2006), 297-299.
Kenneth has also published a number of reviews in Review of English Studies, Notes & Queries and Journal of Sixteenth-Century Studies.
