Cambridge Companion to Boccaccio

A major re-evaluation of Boccaccio's status as literary innovator and cultural mediator equal to that of Petrarch and Dante.

A propos de l'auteur

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).

Résumé

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Guyda (University of Manchester) Daniel Armstrong, Guyda Daniels Armstrong, Guyda Armstrong
• Collaboration: Guyda (University of Manchester) Armstrong (Editeur), Rhiannon (University of Bristol) Daniels (Editeur), Stephen J. (University of Manchester) Milner (Editeur), Stephen J Milner (Editeur), Daniels Rhiannon (Editeur), Armstrong Guyda (Editeur), Milner Stephen J. (Editeur), Stephen J. Milner (Editeur), Guyda Armstrong (Editeur), Rhiannon Daniels (Editeur)
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Contenu: Livre
• Forme du produit: Livre de poche
• Date de parution: 30.04.2015
• Catégorie: Ecole et pédagogie > Formation pour adultes/université populaire; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée
• EAN: 9781107609631
• ISBN: 978-1-107-60963-1
• Nombre de pages: 294
• Thème: Cambridge Companions to Literature; Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Catégories: French, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, Italy, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval