Boccaccio's Naked Muse

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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802092047
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Boccaccio's Naked Muse by : Tobias Foster Gittes

Download or read book Boccaccio's Naked Muse written by Tobias Foster Gittes and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venturing outside the Decameron to the Latin works, and outside the usual textual and intertextual readings of Boccaccio to more broadly cultural and anthropological material, Boccaccio's Naked Muse offers fresh insights on this hugely significant literary figure.

Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110704166X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature by : Martin Eisner

Download or read book Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature written by Martin Eisner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Boccaccio's pivotal role in legitimizing the vernacular literature of Dante, Petrarch and Cavalcanti through argument, narrative and transcription.

The Cambridge Companion to Boccaccio

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107014352
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Boccaccio by : Guyda Armstrong

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Boccaccio written by Guyda Armstrong and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major re-evaluation of Boccaccio's status as literary innovator and cultural mediator equal to that of Petrarch and Dante.

Boccaccio

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022607921X
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Book Synopsis Boccaccio by : Victoria Kirkham,

Download or read book Boccaccio written by Victoria Kirkham, and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long celebrated as one of “the Three Crowns” of Florence, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–75) experimented widely with the forms of literature. His prolific and innovative writings—which range beyond the novella, from lyric to epic, from biography to mythography and geography, from pastoral and romance to invective—became powerful models for authors in Italy and across the Continent. This collection of essays presents Boccaccio’s life and creative output in its encyclopedic diversity. Exploring a variety of genres, Latin as well as Italian, it provides short descriptions of all his works, situates them in his oeuvre, and features critical expositions of their most salient features and innovations. Designed for readers at all levels, it will appeal to scholars of literature, medieval and Renaissance studies, humanism and the classical tradition; as well as European historians, art historians, and students of material culture and the history of the book. Anchored by an introduction and chronology, this volume contains contributions by prominent Boccaccio scholars in the United States, as well as essays by contributors from France, Italy, and the United Kingdom. The year 2013, Boccaccio’s seven-hundredth birthday, will be an important one for the study of his work and will see an increase in academic interest in reassessing his legacy.

Building a Monument to Dante

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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442640510
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Book Synopsis Building a Monument to Dante by : Jason M. Houston

Download or read book Building a Monument to Dante written by Jason M. Houston and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `Building a Monument to Dante successfully tackles the topic of Boccaccio's life-long interest in Dante from a novel point of view, interrogating the many facets of Boccaccio's activity as dantista along new lines.' Simone Marchesi, Department of French and Italian, Princeton University --

Boccaccio and Exemplary Literature

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009224387
Total Pages : 287 pages
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Book Synopsis Boccaccio and Exemplary Literature by : Olivia Holmes

Download or read book Boccaccio and Exemplary Literature written by Olivia Holmes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first monograph to provide a comprehensive interpretation of the Decameron's response to classical and medieval didactic traditions. Olivia Holmes unearths the rich variety of Boccaccio's sources, ranging across Aesopic fables, narrative collections of Islamicate origin, sermon-stories and saints' lives, and compilations of historical anecdotes. Examining the Decameron's sceptical and sexually permissive contents in relation to medieval notions of narrative exemplarity, the study also considers how they intersect with current critical assertions of fiction's power to develop empathy and emotional intelligence. Holmes argues that Boccaccio provides readers with the opportunity to exercise both what the ancients called 'Ethics,' and our contemporaries call 'Theory of Mind.' This account of a vast tradition of tale collections and its provocative analysis of their workings will appeal to scholars of Italian literature and medieval studies, as well as to readers interested in evolutionary understandings of storytelling.

Boccaccio’s Corpus

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Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268104522
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (681 download)

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Book Synopsis Boccaccio’s Corpus by : James C. Kriesel

Download or read book Boccaccio’s Corpus written by James C. Kriesel and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Boccaccio’s Corpus, James C. Kriesel explores how medieval ideas about the body and gender inspired Boccaccio’s vernacular and Latin writings. Scholars have observed that Boccaccio distinguished himself from Dante and Petrarch by writing about women, erotic acts, and the sexualized body. On account of these facets of his texts, Boccaccio has often been heralded as a protorealist author who invented new literatures by eschewing medieval modes of writing. This study revises modern scholarship by showing that Boccaccio’s texts were informed by contemporary ideas about allegory, gender, and theology. Kriesel proposes that Boccaccio wrote about women to engage with debates concerning the dignity of what was coded as female in the Middle Ages. This encompassed varieties of mundane experiences, somatic spiritual expressions, and vernacular texts. Boccaccio championed the feminine to counter the diverse writers who thought that men, ascetic experiences, and Latin works had more dignity than women and female cultures. Emboldened by literary and religious ideas about the body, Boccaccio asserted that his “feminine” texts could signify as efficaciously as Dante’s Divine Comedy and Petrarch’s classicizing writings. Indeed, he claimed that they could even be more effective in moving an audience because of their affective nature— namely, their capacity to attract, entertain, and stimulate readers. Kriesel argues that Boccaccio drew on medieval traditions to highlight the symbolic utility of erotic literatures and to promote cultures associated with women.

Medieval Ovid: Frame Narrative and Political Allegory

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137482826
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Book Synopsis Medieval Ovid: Frame Narrative and Political Allegory by : A. Gerber

Download or read book Medieval Ovid: Frame Narrative and Political Allegory written by A. Gerber and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-20 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ovid's Metamorphoses played an irrefutably important role in the integration of pagan mythology in Christian texts during the Middle Ages. This book is the only study to consider this Ovidian revival as part of a cultural shift disintegrating the boundaries between not only sacred and profane literacy but also between academic and secular politics.

Reconsidering Boccaccio

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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 148751395X
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Book Synopsis Reconsidering Boccaccio by : Olivia Holmes

Download or read book Reconsidering Boccaccio written by Olivia Holmes and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconsidering Boccaccio highlights the great Florentine writer Giovanni Boccaccio’s remarkable achievements in the fourteenth century as a cultural mediator; his exceptional social, geographic, and intellectual range; and the influence of his legacy on numerous cultural networks. Grounded in Boccaccio’s own writings, Reconsidering Boccaccio brings a variety of methodologies and critical approaches to the works of one of the ‘three crowns’ of Italian literature. Containing essays by scholars not only of Italian literature, but also history, law, classics, and Middle Eastern literature, this collection is part of a vital movement to open up a dialogue among researchers in various areas of study that touch on the works of Boccaccio. The volume highlights the necessity of a technical and historical framework when approaching Boccaccio studies, while also shedding new light on the lives of women and their role in the reception of Boccaccio’s works.

The English Boccaccio

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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442646039
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Book Synopsis The English Boccaccio by : Guyda Armstrong

Download or read book The English Boccaccio written by Guyda Armstrong and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio has had a long and colourful history in English translation. This new interdisciplinary study presents the first exploration of the reception of Boccaccio's writings in English literary culture, tracing his presence from the early fifteenth century to the 1930s. Guyda Armstrong tells this story through a wide-ranging journey through time and space -- from the medieval reading communities of Naples and Avignon to the English court of Henry VIII, from the censorship of the Decameron to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, from the world of fine-press printing to the clandestine pornographers of 1920s New York, and much more. Drawing on the disciplines of book history, translation studies, comparative literature, and visual studies, the author focuses on the book as an object, examining how specific copies of manuscripts and printed books were presented to an English readership by a variety of translators. Armstrong is thereby able to reveal how the medieval text in translation is remade and re-authorized for every new generation of readers." -- Publisher's description.

Boccaccio the Philosopher

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319651153
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Book Synopsis Boccaccio the Philosopher by : Filippo Andrei

Download or read book Boccaccio the Philosopher written by Filippo Andrei and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the tangled relationship between literary production and epistemological foundation as exemplified in one of the masterpieces of Italian literature. Filippo Andrei argues that Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron has a significant though concealed engagement with philosophy, and that the philosophical implications of its narratives can be understood through an epistemological approach to the text. He analyzes the influence of Dante, Petrarch, Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle, and other classical and medieval thinkers on Boccaccio's attitudes towards ethics and knowledge-seeking. Beyond providing an epistemological reading of the Decameron, this book also evaluates how a theoretical reflection on the nature of rhetoric and poetic imagination can ultimately elicit a theory of knowledge.

Euhemerism and Its Uses

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000356582
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Book Synopsis Euhemerism and Its Uses by : Syrithe Pugh

Download or read book Euhemerism and Its Uses written by Syrithe Pugh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first interdisciplinary study of the long history of an important phenomenon in European intellectual and cultural history / Fills an important gap in the history of ideas / Will appeal to scholars and students of classical reception, mediaeval and Renaissance literature, historiography, and theories of myth and religion

Literary Appropriations

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442214279
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Book Synopsis Literary Appropriations by : Paul Maurice Clogan

Download or read book Literary Appropriations written by Paul Maurice Clogan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international board of distinguished scholars and critics, has published interdisciplinary articles. In yearly hardcover volumes, the new series publishes significant scholarship, criticism, and reviews treating all facets of medieval and Renaissance culture: history, art, literature, music, science, law, economics, and philosophy.

Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 37

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442214287
Total Pages : 169 pages
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Download or read book Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 37 written by Paul Maurice Clogan and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2011-12-08 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 37— Literary Appropriations—examines medieval literature in a different light. This volume features six original articles, focusing on the art of appropriation, as well as fourteen reviews of recent scholarly publications. The first article “The Oldest Manuscript Witness of the First Life of Blessed Francis of Assisi” by Jacques Dalarun reveals the oldest known source of the writings of Francis of Assisi, until of late only found in an Italian church publication. Lisa Bansen-Harp’s essay “Ironic Patterning and Numerical Composition in the Vie de saint Alexis: Form and Effect/Affect” takes an ironic look at the oppositions used throughout the work to offer a rich analysis of patterns. Reexamining genealogy as spiritual rather than biological is Nicole Leapley’s essay “Rewriting Paternity: The Meaning of Renovating Westminster in La Esoire de seint Aedward le rei.” David Lummus’s essay “Boccaccio’s Three Venuses: On the Convergence of Celestial and Transgressive Love in the Genealogie Deorum Gentilium Libri” provides a comparative look of how love—celestial and transgressive—can be seen in the Decameron. “Dante’s Justinian, Cino’s Corpus: The Hermeneutics of Poetry and Law” by Lorenzo Valterza compares and contrasts Dante’s own view of law versus that of his friend Cino da Pistoia. Lastly, editor Paul Clogan contributes his own article “Dante’s Appropriation of Lucan’s Cato and Erichtho” to demonstrate the importance of Lucan’s characters in Dante’s own work Along with these articles, fourteen reviews, from the United States and all over the world, are included, truly making Medievalia et Humanistica an international publication. To reflect the submissions and audience for Medievalia et Humanistica, the editorial and review boards include ten members from the United States and ten international members, making thisa truly international publication. For submission guidelines, please contact Jin Yu at [email protected]. Please submit books for review consideration to: Attention: Reinhold F. Glei Medievalia et Humanistica Ruhr-University Bochum Seminar fuer Klassische Philologie D-44780 Bochum, Germany

Medieval Mythography, Volume Three

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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532688997
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Book Synopsis Medieval Mythography, Volume Three by : Jane Chance

Download or read book Medieval Mythography, Volume Three written by Jane Chance and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this volume, Jane Chance concludes her monumental study of the history of mythography in medieval literature. Her focus here is the advent of hybrid mythography, the transformation of mythological commentary by blending the scholarly with the courtly and the personal. No other work examines the mythographic interrelationships among these poets and their unique and personal approaches to mythological commentary.

The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191649384
Total Pages : 689 pages
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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer by : Suzanne Conklin Akbari

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer written by Suzanne Conklin Akbari and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the 'father' of the English literary canon, one of a very few writers to appear in every 'great books' syllabus, Chaucer is seen as an author whose works are fundamentally timeless: an author who, like Shakespeare, exemplifies the almost magical power of poetry to appeal to each generation of readers. Every age remakes its own Chaucer, developing new understandings of how his poetry intersects with contemporary ways of seeing the world, and the place of the subject who lives in it. This Handbook comprises a series of essays by established scholars and emerging voices that address Chaucer's poetry in the context of several disciplines, including late medieval philosophy and science, Mediterranean Studies, comparative literature, vernacular theology, and popular devotion. The volume paints the field in broad strokes and sections include Biography and Circumstances of Daily Life; Chaucer in the European Frame; Philosophy and Science in the Universities; Christian Doctrine and Religious Heterodoxy; and the Chaucerian Afterlife. Taken as a whole, The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer offers a snapshot of the current state of the field, and a bold suggestion of the trajectories along which Chaucer studies are likely to develop in the future.

The Figure of the Nymph in Early Modern Culture

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004364358
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Figure of the Nymph in Early Modern Culture written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the early modern period, the nymph remained a powerful figure that inspired and informed the cultural imagination in many different ways. Far from being merely a symbol of the classical legacy, the nymph was invested with a surprisingly broad range of meanings. Working on the basis of these assumptions, and thus challenging Aby Warburg’s famous reflections on the nympha that both portrayed her as cultural archetype and reduced her to a marginal figure, the contributions in this volume seek to uncover the multifarious roles played by nymphs in literature, drama, music, the visual arts, garden architecture, and indeed intellectual culture tout court, and thereby explore the true significance of this well-known figure for the early modern age. Contributors: Barbara Baert, Mira Becker-Sawatzky, Agata Anna Chrzanowska, Karl Enenkel, Wolfgang Fuhrmann, Michaela Kaufmann, Andreas Keller, Eva-Bettina Krems, Damaris Leimgruber, Tobias Leuker, Christian Peters, Christoph Pieper, Bernd Roling, and Anita Traninger.