The Decameron Sixth Day in Perspective
David Lummus, "The Decameron Sixth Day in Perspective "
English | ISBN: 1487508719 | 2021 | 296 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1487508719 | 2021 | 296 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The Sixth Day of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron 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 Decameron – 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
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