Robins: The Decameron Eighth Day in Perspective
William Robins, "Robins: The Decameron Eighth Day in Perspective "
English | ISBN: 1487506902 | 2020 | 296 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 1398 KB
English | ISBN: 1487506902 | 2020 | 296 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 1398 KB
Divided into ten days of ten novellas each, Boccaccio’s Decameron is one of the literary gems of the fourteenth century. The Decameron Eighth Day in Perspective is an interpretive guide to the stories of the text’s Day Eight – a day dedicated to tales of tricks and practical jokes. By drawing on literary precursors such as fabliaux, epic, philosophy, exempla, Dante’s Commedia, and scripture, and by meditating on the dynamics of civic engagement in fourteenth-century Florence, Boccaccio develops in these stories of jests a self-consciously literary representation of the Florentine social imaginary.
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