Religion and the Clergy in Boccaccio's Decameron
Author : Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin
Publisher : Ed. di Storia e Letteratura
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 11,37 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin
Publisher : Ed. di Storia e Letteratura
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 11,37 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Leonard Michael Koff
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 17,61 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780838638002
That resistance, informed by a model of literary influence grounded on the idea of interruption, would keep the Canterbury Tales away from the Decameron, though not the rest of Chaucer from other works by Boccaccio. In the end, of course, that resistance tells us more about Chaucer's reception since the fifteenth century than about Chaucer himself or his sources."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 50,59 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Frame-stories
ISBN : 9780192836915
This new translation by Guido Waldman captures the exuberance and variety and tone of Boccaccio's masterpiece.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 28,82 MB
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004461779
This book explores literary and non-literary texts, along with their early manuscripts and subsequent printed and digital editions, covering a time span extending over 1000 years.
Author : Robert W. Hanning
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 20,49 MB
Release : 2021-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0192647628
Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Stories for an Uncertain World understands the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales to communicate a radical uncertainty haunting most human endeavors, one that challenges effective knowledge of the future, the past, or the distant present; accurate perception of both complex, equivocal signifying systems, including language, and the intentions hidden rather than revealed by the words and deeds of others; and successful strategy in dealing with the chronic excesses and arbitrariness of power. This comparative study of Decameron novelle and Canterbury pilgrim tales yields the insight that the key to coping with these challenges is pragmatic prudence: rational calculation issuing in an opportunistic, often amoral choice of ingenious deeds and/or eloquent words appropriate (though without guarantee) to mastering a specific crisis, and achieving the goal of agency in the here and now, not salvation in the Hereafter. An initial chapter explores the Aristotelian antecedents, contemporaneous cultural influences, and narrative techniques that intersect to shape the radically uncertain world of the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales, while succeeding chapters pair, and compare, stories from both collections that illustrate the quest for agency-its successes and its failures—through plots often brilliantly adapted from simpler antecedents, as well as eloquence by turns satiric and insightful. This is storytelling that exposes a culture's fears, as well as its aspirations for mastery over the circumstances that challenge its existence; reading these tales should be a labor of love and the goal of this study is to help assure that the reader's labor shall not be lost.
Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 35,18 MB
Release : 2023-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
In the time of a devastating pandemic, seven women and three men withdraw to a country estate outside Florence to give themselves a diversion from the death around them. Once there, they decide to spend some time each day telling stories, each of the ten to tell one story each day. They do this for ten days, with a few other days of rest in between, resulting in the 100 stories of the Decameron. The Decameron was written after the Black Plague spread through Italy in 1348. Most of the tales did not originate with Boccaccio; some of them were centuries old already in his time, but Boccaccio imbued them all with his distinctive style. The stories run the gamut from tragedy to comedy, from lewd to inspiring, and sometimes all of those at once. They also provide a detailed picture of daily life in fourteenth-century Italy.
Author : N. S. Thompson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 29,30 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature
ISBN : 9780198186465
Although the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales have often been linked, this is the first ever major study of the two most popular medieval collections of framed narratives to examine the texts as a whole. The present study goes well beyond shared general similarities and the inconclusive search for source or analogue material in order to look at the internal dynamics of each text and the surprising similarities that emerge there in terms of theories of literature, authority and authorship and the particular reader response envisaged by their authors.
Author : Peter Brand
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 22,89 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521434928
'There is no doubt that the present splendid volume ... is likely to remain unrivalled for many years to come for width of coverage, richness of detail, and elegance of presentation.' Modern Language Reviews
Author : Gloria Allaire
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 15,93 MB
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1135354677
The novella was an important medieval and Renaissance prose narrative form that developed out of exempla and didactic literature and contributed to modern narrative forms. This is the first collection of essays dedicated to comprehensive scholarship on the Italian novella. The essays range from work on the Decameron , the epitome of the genre, to studies of sixteenth century authors who often utilized transgressive or sexual themes in their novellas.
Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 14,93 MB
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0429576501
Published in 1990: This book tells the life story of Dante, the poet and his work.