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A major re-evaluation of Boccaccio's status as literary innovator and cultural mediator equal to that of Petrarch and Dante.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part I. Locating Boccaccio: 1. Boccaccio as cultural mediator Guyda Armstrong, Rhiannon Daniels and Stephen J. Milner; 2. Boccaccio and his desk Beatrice Arduini; 3. Boccaccio's narrators and audiences Rhiannon Daniels; Part II. Literary Forms and Narrative Voices: 4. The Decameron and narrative form Pier Massimo Forni; 5. The Decameron and Boccaccio's poetics David Lummus; 6. Boccaccio's Decameron and the semiotics of the everyday Stephen J. Milner; 7. Voicing gender in the Decameron F. Regina Psaki; Part III. Boccaccio's Literary Contexts: 8. Boccaccio and Dante Guyda Armstrong; 9. Boccaccio and Petrarch Gur Zak; 10. Boccaccio and humanism Tobias Gittes; 11. Boccaccio and women Marilyn Migiel; Part IV. Transmission and Adaptation: 12. Editing Boccaccio Brian Richardson; 13. Translating Boccaccio Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin; 14. Boccaccio beyond the text Massimo Riva; Guide to further reading.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Guyda Armstrong is Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Manchester and is author of The English Boccaccio: A History in Books (2013).Rhiannon Daniels is Lecturer in Italian at the University of Bristol and is author of Boccaccio and the Book: Production and Reading in Italy, 1340–1520 (2009).Stephen J. Milner is Serena Professor of Italian at the University of Manchester. He is co-editor, with Catherine Lèglu, of The Erotics of Consolation: Distance and Desire in the Middle Ages (2008) and editor of At the Margins: Minority Groups in Premodern Italy (2005).
Zusammenfassung
This Companion provides a comprehensive and revisionary account of the life and works of Giovanni Boccaccio and his reception over the seven hundred years since his birth. Drawing upon the most recent research and archival discoveries, this collection of essays re-evaluates Boccaccio's status within the Italian and global literary canon.