Decameron Eighth Day in Perspective - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Decameron Eighth Day in Perspective write by William Robins. This book was released on 2020. Decameron Eighth Day in Perspective available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Stories about pranks figure prominently in Boccaccio's Decameron. This book explores Boccaccio's poetics of repetition, accumulation, and contiguity in Day Eight, a day rich in tales of practical jokes.
The Decameron Eighth Day in Perspective
The Decameron Eighth Day in Perspective - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Decameron Eighth Day in Perspective write by William Robins. This book was released on 2020-07-09. The Decameron Eighth Day in Perspective available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Divided into ten days of ten novellas each, Boccaccio’s Decameron is one of the literary gems of the fourteenth century. The Decameron Eighth Day in Perspective is an interpretive guide to the stories of the text’s Day Eight – a day dedicated to tales of tricks and practical jokes. By drawing on literary precursors such as fabliaux, epic, philosophy, exempla, Dante’s Commedia, and scripture, and by meditating on the dynamics of civic engagement in fourteenth-century Florence, Boccaccio develops in these stories of jests a self-consciously literary representation of the Florentine social imaginary. The essays in this volume, all written by prominent scholars, survey previous scholarship and open up new cultural and historical perspectives on Boccaccio’s sophisticated art of storytelling. They analyze both the literary sources that Boccaccio’s comic narratives transform, as well as the political, legal, and ethical contexts with which they engage. Each contributor tackles a single tale, yet their essays also register major themes and concerns that recur throughout Day Eight, allowing for close connections among the essays.
The Decameron Ninth Day in Perspective
The Decameron Ninth Day in Perspective - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Decameron Ninth Day in Perspective write by Simone Marchesi. This book was released on 2022-03-31. The Decameron Ninth Day in Perspective available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Ninth Day of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron is significant both for numerological and structural reasons. Whether we consider the Decameron as reproducing an itinerary toward the attainment of virtue or following other possible interpretive schematics, Day Nine remains a liminal moment of pause before the inception of the final stories dedicated to the highest civic virtues of liberality and magnificence. This collection is comprised of extensive and rigorous essays by leading experts in the field of Boccaccio studies and medieval literature, shedding new critical light on the Ninth Day. The volume incorporates a multitude of disciplinary perspectives including literary studies, visual arts, political history, and gender studies. Taking a holistic approach, the contributors to the volume trace the dense and multi-layered web of interrelations between the narrative units and the rest of the Decameron. Connections between individual stories are highlighted and interactions between Day Nine and its counterparts in the book are analysed. In doing so, The Decameron Ninth Day in Perspective synthesizes existing scholarship but also opens up new horizons for future work.
The Decameron First Day in Perspective
The Decameron First Day in Perspective - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Decameron First Day in Perspective write by Elissa B. Weaver. This book was released on 2004-12-15. The Decameron First Day in Perspective available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Decameron Fourth Day in Perspective
Decameron Fourth Day in Perspective - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Decameron Fourth Day in Perspective write by Michael Sherberg. This book was released on 2020. Decameron Fourth Day in Perspective available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This compilation of eleven essays offers exciting new perspectives on one of the greatest works of Italian literature.
