Writer As Liar - Narrative Technique in the Decameron

Informationen zum Autor Guido Almansi Zusammenfassung Originally published in 1975, The Writer as Liar examines the Decameron and argues that Boccaccio’s story telling depends for its success not on the combinative assemblage of narrative blocks, which are manipulated by a craftsman who lies and cheats with raw material in to produce a living work. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Narrative Screens 2. Literature and Falsehood 3. Bawdry and Ars Combinatoria 4. The Meaning of a Storm 5. Passion and Metaphor Bibliographical Conventions Index

Product details

• Authors: Guido Almansi, Almansi Guido
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367207311
• ISBN: 978-0-367-20731-1
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: The Medieval World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Italian, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval