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The Decameron sixth day in perspective : volume six of the Lectura Boccaccii by Guyda Armstrong; Zygmunt G Barański; Giulia Cardillo; Peter Carravetta; Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin; Aileen A Feng; Teresa Kennedy; James C Kriesel; Maria Lettiero; David Lummus; Bernardo Piciché is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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<P>The Sixth Day of Giovanni Boccaccio’s <I>Decameron</I> marks a new beginning. Its first story is the structural centre of the one hundred tales and signals the start of the day’s reflection on the power of the word as the fundamental building block of human communication. This collection gathers together readings of each of the ten stories in Day Six of the <I>Decameron</I> – the shortest of the entire work. Featuring a diverse group of literary scholars whose expertise is not limited to Boccaccio studies, the collection offers both comprehensive accounts of the tales and new interpretations of their significance. A major contribution to the study of the <I>Decameron</I>,<I> </I>it will also serve as an excellent starting point for new readers of Boccaccio’s masterpiece.</P> <P>The readings demonstrate how Boccaccio engaged in rethinking or elaborating on the heritage of Western literature and thought, including the Bible; the works of Dante; the Roman literary, rhetorical, and legal tradition; the writings of the Church Fathers; and the ideas of scholastic theologians. These <I>lecturae</I> employ a range of methodologies that account for both historical and theoretical issues
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- Author
- Guyda Armstrong; Zygmunt G Barański; Giulia Cardillo; Peter Carravetta; Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin; Aileen A Feng; Teresa Kennedy; James C Kriesel; Maria Lettiero; David Lummus; Bernardo Piciché
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781487508692
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Literary Collections, Literary Fiction
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