Adventures in Speech: Rhetoric and Narration in Boccaccio's Decameron (Middle Ages Series) - Hardcover

Forni, Pier Massimo

 
9780812233384: Adventures in Speech: Rhetoric and Narration in Boccaccio's Decameron (Middle Ages Series)
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ISBN 10: 0812233387 ISBN 13: 9780812233384
Verlag: De Gruyter, 1996

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Pier Massimo Forni is Professor of Italian Studies at The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Forme complesse nel Decameron.

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The Decameron is a narrative account of a situation in which narration takes place - a collection of one hundred stories set within a larger story. As a group of young men and women fleeing the plague trade stories to pass the time of crisis, storytelling occurs in a social context that allows for comment upon the tales by the tellers themselves, in a setting that elicits one story in return for another. In his close and original analysis, Pier Massimo Forni uses the notion of rhetoric as a guiding principle for a critical assessment of the Decameron. He explores the discursive tools with which the narrators connect the contents of their stories to their audience's environment, and goes on to argue that the book is significantly marked by Boccaccio's habit of exploring the narrative potential of rhetorical forms. Puzzling narrative segments and stories make new sense once they are understood to dramatize or enact metaphors and other figures of speech.

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Verlag
De Gruyter
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0812233387
ISBN 13 
9780812233384
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Anzahl der Seiten
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