The Decameron Sixth Day in Perspective - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1487508719 ISBN 13: 9781487508715

Casa editrice: Univ of Toronto Pr, 2021

Riassunto

The Sixth Day of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron marks a new beginning. Its first story is the structural centre of the one hundred tales and signals the start of the day’s reflection on the power of the word as the fundamental building block of human communication. This collection gathers together readings of each of the ten stories in Day Six of the Decameron – the shortest of the entire work. Featuring a diverse group of literary scholars whose expertise is not limited to Boccaccio studies, the collection offers both comprehensive accounts of the tales and new interpretations of their significance. A major contribution to the study of the Decameron, it will also serve as an excellent starting point for new readers of Boccaccio’s masterpiece.

The readings demonstrate how Boccaccio engaged in rethinking or elaborating on the heritage of Western literature and thought, including the Bible; the works of Dante; the Roman literary, rhetorical, and legal tradition; the writings of the Church Fathers; and the ideas of scholastic theologians. These lecturae employ a range of methodologies that account for both historical and theoretical issues in their engagement with Boccaccio's poetic and ethical project in the Decameron.

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Informazioni sull?autore

David Lummus is co-director of the Center for Italian Studies and the Devers Family Program in Dante Studies and a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Toronto Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1487508719
• ISBN 13: 9781487508715
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 289
• Redattore: Lummus David
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