The Decameron First Day in Perspective (Toronto Italian Studies, Band 1) - Softcover

 
9780802085894: The Decameron First Day in Perspective (Toronto Italian Studies, Band 1)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 080208589X ISBN 13: 9780802085894
Verlag: University of Toronto Press, 2004

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Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron is the best known and most read work in Italian literature next to Dante's Divine Comedy. In the tradition of Lectura Dantis, the practice of story-by-story critical readings of Dante's work, Elissa Weaver has collected essays from some of the most prominent American Boccaccio scholars to provide critical readings of the Decameron Proem, Introduction, and the ten stories that constitute the first of the ten 'days' of storytelling.

The first of the twelve essays opens the volume with a consideration of the Proem, demonstrating the importance of Boccaccio's literary subtexts (Ovidian and Dantean) for understanding his poetics. The second essay, on the Introduction, discusses the title of the work and the framing tale. The remaining ten contributions treat in detail each story, examining the literary, ethical, and social concerns embodied in the short narratives and in the context provided by the comments and discussions of the story-tellers, and exploring the intertextual relations within the Decameron and with sources and analogues. This inaugural book in a new series of critical essays on the Decameron will provide an important guide to reading the complex series of narratives that constitute the opening of the Decameron and will serve as a guide to reading the entire work.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Elissa B. Weaver is a professor of Italian in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago.

Elissa B. Weaver is a professor of Italian in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago

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Verlag
University of Toronto Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
080208589X
ISBN 13 
9780802085894
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
304
Herausgeber
Weaver Elissa B.
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

Doelen 72
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4831 GR
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