Boccaccio: Decameron

Zusammenfassung Ten young people leave Florence to escape the Black Death of 1348! and organize life in the countryside through the pleasure and discipline of story-telling. David Wallace discusses their 100 "novelles" along with Florentine culture! gender issues and the wider influences of the text. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Chronology; Part I. The Making of the Decameron: 1. The Decameron as a landmark of world literature; 2. Boccaccio, Naples and Florence before the Decameron; Part II. The Decameron: 3. Title and preface; 4. First Day (Introduction); (i) the plague; (ii) the mise-en-scene; 5. First Day: the saint's life and the powers of language; 6. Second Day: fortune, female character and the impulse to trade; 7. Third Day: sex, voice and morals; 8. Fourth Day (introduction): Boccaccio's apology for Florentine prose; 9. Fourth Day: love and feudal aristocracy; 10. Fifth Day: romance, class difference, social negotiation; 11. Sixth Day: Florentine society and associational form; 12. Seventh Day: controlling domestic space; 13. Eighth Day: the scholar and the widow; 14. Ninth Day: the mystery of Calandrino; 15. Tenth Day: magnificance and myths of power; 16. The return to Florence and the author's conclusion; Part III. After the Decameron: Guide to further reading.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: David Wallace, David J. Wallace, Wallace David J.
• Collaboration: J. P. Stern (Editeur)
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 30.08.1991
• EAN: 9780521388511
• ISBN: 978-0-521-38851-1
• Pages: 132
• Thèmes: Landmarks of World Literature; Landmarks of World Literature
• Catégories: Littérature > Poésie, théâtre; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, 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, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form