The Decameron Sixth Day in Perspective
Title | The Decameron Sixth Day in Perspective PDF eBook |
Author | David Lummus |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2021-06-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1487508700 |
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.
The Decameron First Day in Perspective
Title | The Decameron First Day in Perspective PDF eBook |
Author | Elissa B. Weaver |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 2004-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780802085894 |
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.
The Decameron Third Day in Perspective
Title | The Decameron Third Day in Perspective PDF eBook |
Author | Francesco Ciabattoni |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 279 |
Release | 2014-03-21 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 144261644X |
Divided into ten days of ten novellas each, Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron is one of the literary gems of the fourteenth century. The ‘Decameron’ Third Day in Perspective is an interpretive guide to the stories of the text’s Third Day. For each novella, a distinguished Boccaccio scholar offers an essay that both reviews the current scholarly literature and advances new and intriguing interpretations of the work. The whole collection reflects the series’s guiding principle of examining the text “in perspective,” revealing the connections among the novellas, the Days, and the framing narrative that holds the whole Decameron together. The second of the University of Toronto Press’s interpretive guides to Boccaccio’s Decameron, this collection forms part of an ambitious project to examine the entire Decameron, Day by Day.
Decameron Sixth Day in Perspective
Title | Decameron Sixth Day in Perspective PDF eBook |
Author | David Lummus |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1487508719 |
The expert readings in this collection explore the ten stories of Day Six of Boccaccio's Decameron - a day that involves meditations on language, narration, and meaning
Law and Mimesis in Boccaccio's Decameron
Title | Law and Mimesis in Boccaccio's Decameron PDF eBook |
Author | Justin Steinberg |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 2023-05-31 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1316512746 |
Steinberg's field-defining work shows how Boccaccio's Decameron reveals unexpected connections between the contemporary emergence of literary realism and legal inquisition in early modern Europe.
Communication, Translation, and Community in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
Title | Communication, Translation, and Community in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period PDF eBook |
Author | Albrecht Classen |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 642 |
Release | 2022-08-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3110776871 |
Die neue englischsprachige Reihe zur Mediävistik strebt eine methodisch reflektierte, anspruchsvolle Verbindung von Text- und Kulturwissenschaft an. Sie widmet sich den kulturellen Grundthemen der mittelalterlichen Welt aus der Perspektive der Literatur- und Geschichtswissenschaft. ‚Grundthemen' sind die kulturprägenden Denkbilder, Weltanschauungen, Sozialstrukturen und Alltagsbedingungen des mittelalterlichen Lebens, also z. B. Kindheit und Alter, Sexualität, Religion, Medizin, Rituale, Arbeit, Armut und Reichtum, Aberglauben, Erde und Kosmos, Stadt und Land, Krieg, Emotionen, Kommunikation, Reisen usw. Die Reihe greift wichtige aktuelle Fachdiskussionen auf und stellt ein Forum der interdisziplinären Mittelalter-Forschung dar. Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture steht Sammelbänden ebenso offen wie Monographien. Intention ist immer, kompendienhafte Werke zu zentralen Fragen der mittelalterlichen Kulturgeschichte vorzulegen, die einen soliden Überblick über einen geschlossenen Themenkreis aus der Perspektive verschiedener Fachdisziplinen vermitteln. Im Ganzen bietet die Reihe so eine Enzyklopädie der mittelalterlichen Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte und ihrer Hauptthemen. Es werden ca. zwei Bände pro Jahr erscheinen.
Criticism of the Court and the Evil King in the Middle Ages
Title | Criticism of the Court and the Evil King in the Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Albrecht Classen |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Pages | 301 |
Release | 2024-08-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1666941220 |
Examining literary narratives from the tenth through the fifteenth centuries, this book explores how writers used their craft to voice harsh criticism of the ruling class and unearths a deep distrust of kings and other authority figures during the Middle Ages.