The Decameron first day in perspective [electronic resource] : volume one of the Lecturae Boccaccii / edited by Elissa B. Weaver.
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 promi...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Series: | Toronto Italian studies.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 270 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-256) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781442681095 1442681098 1282037137 9781282037137 9786612037139 661203713X 1487586744 9781487586744 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |