Boccaccio and the Consolation of Literature

"This volume is the first sustained study of Boccaccio's consoling fictions as well as his reflections on the way literature can, and should, offer solace. It analyzes the affective, exemplary, and cognitive modes of consolation that mark the poet's works, but it also underlines the critical dialogue with the ancient and medieval traditions Boccaccio inherits. The limits of Stoic, Boethian, and Dantesque views of consolation are laid bare as Boccaccio fashions a new vision of consolatio for the later Middle Ages"--

About the author

Gur Zak teaches in the Departments of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of Petrarch's Humanism and the Care of the Self (2010). His articles have appeared in I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance, MLN, and Speculum, among other journals

Product details

• Authors: Gur Zak
• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2022
• EAN: 9780888442291
• ISBN: 978-0-88844-229-1
• No. of pages: 226
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 499 g
• Series: Studies and Texts
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies