Boccaccio: Decameron - Brossura

Wallace, David

 
9780521388511: Boccaccio: Decameron
Brossura
ISBN 10: 0521388511 ISBN 13: 9780521388511
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Sinossi

In Boccaccio's innovative text, ten young people leave Florence to escape the Black Death of 1348, and organize their collective life in the countryside through the pleasure and discipline of story-telling. David Wallace guides the reader through their one hundred novelle, which explore both new and familiar conflicts from private and public spheres of life with unprecedented subtlety, urgency and humour. He emphasises the relationship between Decameron and the precocious vitality of Florentine culture in Boccaccio's time. He also discusses gender issues and the influence of the text particularly on Chaucer and the novel.

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Contenuti

Acknowledgments; Chronology; Part I. The Making of the Decameron: 1. The Decameron as a landmark of world literature; 2. Boccaccio, Naples and Florence before the Decameron; Part II. The Decameron: 3. Title and preface; 4. First Day (Introduction); (i) the plague; (ii) the mise-en-scene; 5. First Day: the saint's life and the powers of language; 6. Second Day: fortune, female character and the impulse to trade; 7. Third Day: sex, voice and morals; 8. Fourth Day (introduction): Boccaccio's apology for Florentine prose; 9. Fourth Day: love and feudal aristocracy; 10. Fifth Day: romance, class difference, social negotiation; 11. Sixth Day: Florentine society and associational form; 12. Seventh Day: controlling domestic space; 13. Eighth Day: the scholar and the widow; 14. Ninth Day: the mystery of Calandrino; 15. Tenth Day: magnificance and myths of power; 16. The return to Florence and the author's conclusion; Part III. After the Decameron: Guide to further reading.

Product Description

Book by Wallace David J

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Editore
Cambridge University Press
Data di pubblicazione
2010
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0521388511
ISBN 13 
9780521388511
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
132
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
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Altre edizioni note dello stesso titolo

9780521381826: Boccaccio: Decameron

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0521381827 ISBN 13:  9780521381826
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1991
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