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21. Diana's Hunt/Caccia Di Diana: Boccaccios First Edition (Middle Ages Series) by Anthony K. Cassell | |
Hardcover: 144
Pages
(1990-12)
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22. The Genealogy of Women: Studies in Boccaccio's De Mulieribus Claris (Studies in the Humanities (New York, N.Y.), V. 62.) by Stephen Kolsky | |
Hardcover: 254
Pages
(2003-06)
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23. Giovanni Boccaccio As Man and Author. by John Addington Symonds | |
Hardcover:
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(1968-06)
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24. A Rhetoric of the Decameron (Toronto Italian Studies) by Marilyn Migiel | |
Paperback: 220
Pages
(2004-01-15)
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Editorial Review Book Description Both a passionate denunciation of masculinist readings of the Decameron and a meticulous critique of previous feminist analyses, Marilyn Migiel's A Rhetoric of the Decameron offers a sophisticated re-examination of the representations of women, men, gender identity, sexuality, love, hate, morality, and truth in Boccaccio's masterpiece. The Decameron stages an ongoing, dynamic, and spirited debate about issues as urgent now as in the fourteenth century  a debate that can only be understood if the Decameron's rhetorical objectives and strategies are completely reconceived. Addressing herself equally to those who argue for a proto-feminist Boccaccio  a quasi-liberal champion of women's autonomy  and to those who argue for a positivistically secure historical Boccaccio who could not possibly anticipate the concerns of the twenty-first century, Migiel challenges readers to pay attention to Boccaccio's language, to his pronouns, his passives, his echolalia, his patterns of repetition, and his figurative language. She argues that human experience, particularly in the sexual realm, is articulated differently by the Decameron's male and female narrators, and refutes the notion that the Decameron offers an undifferentiated celebration of Eros. Ultimately, Migiel contends, the stories of the Decameron suggest that as women become more empowered, the limitations on them, including the threat of violence, become more insistent. |
25. The Decameron First Day in Perspective (Toronto Italian Studies) | |
Paperback: 304
Pages
(2004-03-20)
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Editorial Review Book Description 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. |
26. The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question | |
Hardcover: 352
Pages
(2000-03)
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27. Design in Chaucer's Troilus by Sanford Brown Meech | |
Hardcover: 529
Pages
(1969-11-28)
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28. Nature and Reason in the Decameron (Publications of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Manchester ; no. 21) by Robert Alistair Bartley Gordon Hastings | |
Hardcover: 116
Pages
(1965-10)
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29. The Boccaccian Novella: Creation and Waning of a Genre (Studies in Italian Culture Literature in History) by Corradina Caporello-Szykman | |
Hardcover: 157
Pages
(1990-12)
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30. Narrative Intellection in the Decameron by Stavros Deligiorgis | |
Hardcover: 233
Pages
(1975-06)
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31. The Ideology of the Decameron by Max Alexander Staples | |
Hardcover: 304
Pages
(1995-05)
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32. Decameron and the Philosophy of Storytelling: Author as Midwife and Pimp by Richard Kuhns | |
Hardcover: 208
Pages
(2005-04-15)
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Editorial Review Book Description In this creative and engaging reading, Richard Kuhns explores the ways in whichDecameron'ssexual themes lead into philosophical inquiry, moral argument, and aesthetic and literary criticism. As he reveals the stories' many philosophical insights and literary pleasures, Kuhns also examinesDecameronin the context of the nature of storytelling, its relationship to other classic works of literature, and the culture of trecento Italy. Stories and storytelling are to be interpreted in terms of a wider cultural context that includes masks, metamorphosis, mythic themes, and character analysis, all of which Boccaccio explores with wit and subtlety. As a storyteller, Boccaccio represents himself as literary pimp, conceiving the relationship between storyteller and audience in sexual terms within a tradition that goes back as far as Socrates' conversations with the young Athenians. As a whole, Boccaccio's great collection of stories creates a trenchant criticism of the ideas that dominated his social and cultural world. Addressed as it is to women who were denied opportunities for education, the author's stories create a university of wise and culturally observant texts. He teaches that comic, religious, sexual, and artistic themes can be seen to function as metaphors for hidden and often dangerous unorthodox thoughts. Kuhns suggests thatDecameronis one of the first self-conscious creations of what we today call "a total work of art." Throughout the stories, Boccaccio creates a detailed picture of the Florentine trecento cultural world. Giotto, Buffalmacco, and other great painters of Boccaccio's time appear in the stories. Their works and the paintings that surround the characters as they prepare to leave the plague-ridden city, with their representations of Dante, Aquinas, and other thinkers, are essential to understanding the ways the stories work with other works of art and illuminate and enlarge interpretations of Boccaccio's book. |
33. Decameron Its Sources & Analogues by A. C. Lee | |
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(1909-06)
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34. GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO ANNOT BIBLI (Garland Medieval Bibliographies) by Consoli | |
Hardcover: 484
Pages
(1992-02-01)
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35. Order from Chaos: Social and Aesthetic Harmonies in Boccaccio's Decameron by Marga Cottino-Jones | |
Paperback: 210
Pages
(1982-06)
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36. Five Frames for the Decameron: Communications and Social Systems in the Cornice by Joy H. Potter | |
Hardcover: 230
Pages
(1982-05)
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37. An Allegory of Form: Literary Self-Consciousness in the Decameron (Stanford French and Italian Studies, v. 18) by Millicent Marcus | |
Paperback: 136
Pages
(1979-06)
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38. Boccaccio's Dante and the Shaping Force of Satire by Robert Hollander | |
Hardcover: 240
Pages
(1997-10-01)
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39. Chaucer and the Early Writings of Boccaccio (Chaucer Studies) by David Wallace | |
Hardcover: 350
Pages
(1985-05-30)
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40. Boccaccio in English: A Bibliography of Editions, Adaptations, and Criticism (Bibliographies and Indexes in World Literature) by F. S. Stych | |
Hardcover: 280
Pages
(1995-01-30)
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