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The Decameron Sixth Day in Perspective

Author : David Lummus
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487508700
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book The Decameron Sixth Day in Perspective written by David Lummus and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Decameron, it will also serve as an excellent starting point for new readers of Boccaccio’s masterpiece. 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 lecturae employ a range of methodologies that account for both historical and theoretical issues in their engagement with Boccaccio's poetic and ethical project in the Decameron.

The Decameron First Day in Perspective

Author : Elissa B. Weaver
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802085894
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (858 download)

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Download or read book The Decameron First Day in Perspective written by Elissa B. Weaver and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inaugural book in a new series of critical essays on the Decameron will provide an important guide to reading the complex series of narratives that constitute the opening of the Decameron and will serve as a guide to reading the entire work.

The Decameron Third Day in Perspective

Author : Francesco Ciabattoni
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 144261644X
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Book Synopsis The Decameron Third Day in Perspective by : Francesco Ciabattoni

Download or read book The Decameron Third Day in Perspective written by Francesco Ciabattoni and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divided into ten days of ten novellas each, Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron is one of the literary gems of the fourteenth century. The ‘Decameron’ Third Day in Perspective is an interpretive guide to the stories of the text’s Third Day. For each novella, a distinguished Boccaccio scholar offers an essay that both reviews the current scholarly literature and advances new and intriguing interpretations of the work. The whole collection reflects the series’s guiding principle of examining the text “in perspective,” revealing the connections among the novellas, the Days, and the framing narrative that holds the whole Decameron together. The second of the University of Toronto Press’s interpretive guides to Boccaccio’s Decameron, this collection forms part of an ambitious project to examine the entire Decameron, Day by Day.

Decameron Sixth Day in Perspective

Author : David Lummus
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487508719
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Decameron Sixth Day in Perspective written by David Lummus and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The expert readings in this collection explore the ten stories of Day Six of Boccaccio's Decameron - a day that involves meditations on language, narration, and meaning

Law and Mimesis in Boccaccio's Decameron

Author : Justin Steinberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316512746
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Book Synopsis Law and Mimesis in Boccaccio's Decameron by : Justin Steinberg

Download or read book Law and Mimesis in Boccaccio's Decameron written by Justin Steinberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steinberg's field-defining work shows how Boccaccio's Decameron reveals unexpected connections between the contemporary emergence of literary realism and legal inquisition in early modern Europe.

Communication, Translation, and Community in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110776871
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Communication, Translation, and Community in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period by : Albrecht Classen

Download or read book Communication, Translation, and Community in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period written by Albrecht Classen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die neue englischsprachige Reihe zur Mediävistik strebt eine methodisch reflektierte, anspruchsvolle Verbindung von Text- und Kulturwissenschaft an. Sie widmet sich den kulturellen Grundthemen der mittelalterlichen Welt aus der Perspektive der Literatur- und Geschichtswissenschaft. ‚Grundthemen' sind die kulturprägenden Denkbilder, Weltanschauungen, Sozialstrukturen und Alltagsbedingungen des mittelalterlichen Lebens, also z. B. Kindheit und Alter, Sexualität, Religion, Medizin, Rituale, Arbeit, Armut und Reichtum, Aberglauben, Erde und Kosmos, Stadt und Land, Krieg, Emotionen, Kommunikation, Reisen usw. Die Reihe greift wichtige aktuelle Fachdiskussionen auf und stellt ein Forum der interdisziplinären Mittelalter-Forschung dar. Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture steht Sammelbänden ebenso offen wie Monographien. Intention ist immer, kompendienhafte Werke zu zentralen Fragen der mittelalterlichen Kulturgeschichte vorzulegen, die einen soliden Überblick über einen geschlossenen Themenkreis aus der Perspektive verschiedener Fachdisziplinen vermitteln. Im Ganzen bietet die Reihe so eine Enzyklopädie der mittelalterlichen Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte und ihrer Hauptthemen. Es werden ca. zwei Bände pro Jahr erscheinen.

Criticism of the Court and the Evil King in the Middle Ages

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1666941220
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Criticism of the Court and the Evil King in the Middle Ages written by Albrecht Classen and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2024-08-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining literary narratives from the tenth through the fifteenth centuries, this book explores how writers used their craft to voice harsh criticism of the ruling class and unearths a deep distrust of kings and other authority figures during the Middle Ages.

Women, Enjoyment, and the Defense of Virtue in Boccaccio’s Decameron

Author : V. Ferme
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137482818
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Book Synopsis Women, Enjoyment, and the Defense of Virtue in Boccaccio’s Decameron by : V. Ferme

Download or read book Women, Enjoyment, and the Defense of Virtue in Boccaccio’s Decameron written by V. Ferme and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing new ways of reading Boccaccio's masterpiece, Decameron , Ferme analyzes the dynamics between the women who rule the first half of the story. Peeling back the many narrative layers within and outside of the framework, this book unearths the complications and trickery surrounding gender and death in Boccaccio's world and culture.

Chaucer's Decameron and the Origin of the Canterbury Tales

Author : Frederick M. Biggs
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843844753
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Chaucer's Decameron and the Origin of the Canterbury Tales by : Frederick M. Biggs

Download or read book Chaucer's Decameron and the Origin of the Canterbury Tales written by Frederick M. Biggs and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major and original contribution to the debate as to Chaucer's use and knowledge of Boccaccio, finding a new source for the "Shipman's Tale". A possible direct link between the two greatest literary collections of the fourteenth century, Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, has long tantalized readers because these works share many stories, which are, moreover, placed in similar frames. And yet, although he identified many of his sources, Chaucer never mentioned Boccaccio; indeed when he retold the Decameron's final novella, his pilgrim, the Clerk, states that it was written by Petrarch. For these reasons, most scholars now believe that while Chaucer might have heard parts of the earlier collection when he was in Italy, he did not have it at hand as he wrote. This volumeaims to change our understanding of this question. It analyses the relationship between the "Shipman's Tale", originally written for the Wife of Bath, and Decameron 8.10, not seen before as a possible source. The book alsoargues that more important than the narratives that Chaucer borrowed is the literary technique that he learned from Boccaccio - to make tales from ideas. This technique, moreover, links the "Shipman's Tale" to the "Miller's Tale"and the new "Wife of Bath's Tale". Although at its core a hermeneutic argument, this book also delves into such important areas as alchemy, domestic space, economic history, folklore, Irish/English politics, manuscripts, and misogyny. FREDERICK M. BIGGS is Professor of English at the University of Connecticut.

The Humanist Project

Author : Peter Carravetta
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666920371
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book The Humanist Project written by Peter Carravetta and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-05-20 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanistic studies has been subjected to critiques from the inside of the university disciplines and shrinking support structures on the outside; moreover, recent technological developments have trapped humans in the maws of the information machine, where will, agency, and dialogue are constantly stunted and mediated, disclosing a nihilistic, dilated present. Against this panorama, Peter Carravetta argues that there is a need to recover the “human” in humanistic reflection, here described as a free social, creative, yet elusive being, caught between idealizations (utopias, concepts of society, autonomy of powers), the realities of survival (basic economics and geographies), and the dynamics of power (the languages and the praxis of actually running the society). The Humanist Project: Will, Judgment, and Society from Dante to Vico presents Dante as the first true humanist, with his stressing the preeminence of free will and individual responsibility in the life of the polis; Boccaccio’s later encyclopedic works as a philosophy of existence and history; Pico della Mirandola’s autopoiesis of the thinking and acting human in light of recent theories of interpretation, the self, and society; Machiavelli and the challenge of chance in determining sociohistorical patterns; Campanella as the last true utopic writer and first to conceive of a realist, world-scale political vision; and Vico as the thinker who identifies and describes the dialectic between historical recurrences and the free will of the individual.

Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature

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

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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.

Boccaccio the Philosopher

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

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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.

Basics of Virtual Reality

Author : Armin Grasnick
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3662642018
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book Basics of Virtual Reality written by Armin Grasnick and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, the reality we know can be recorded and reproduced true to reality using technical processes. Space and time are recreated virtually as a copy in artificial reality. However, the reproduction of virtual reality is not limited to a mere copy of what exists. A visitor to the virtual space does not have to be content with the pixelated image of the old familiar, but can encounter unreal phenomena in the illusory world that never existed in real life or are even physically impossible. This enables an expansion of the recorded reality and allows the perception of surprisingly new perspectives. A perspective denotes the perception of a fact from a certain point of view and corresponds to the way of looking at things. But a perspective is also the observation of a scene from a viewing position. From different perspectives the illusion of reality arises during the reproduction by observation. This vision is not based on imagination or hallucination, but is the basic function of virtual reality. This book describes the concepts, systems, and technologies used to create virtual reality from its ancient beginnings to the present, and provides a glimpse into a possible future. This book is a translation of the original German 1st edition Grundlagen der virtuellen Realität by Armin Grasnick, published by Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature in 2020. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.

Critical Perspectives on the Decameron

Author : Robert S. Dombroski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Perspectives on the Decameron written by Robert S. Dombroski and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Decameron (Norton Critical Editions)

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393523004
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book The Decameron (Norton Critical Editions) written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents fifty-five stories, newly translated, of the hundred novelle that comprise Boccaccio’s masterpiece. Winner of the 2014 PEN USA Literary Award for Translation This Norton Critical Edition includes: · Fifty-five judiciously chosen stories from Wayne A. Rebhorn’s translation of The Decameron. · Introductory materials and explanatory footnotes by Wayne A. Rebhorn, along with three maps. · Biographical works by Filippo Villani and Ludovico Dolce along with literary studies by Francesco Petrarca, Andreas Capellanus, and Boccaccio. · Eleven critical essays, including those by Giuseppe Mazzotta, Millicent Marcus, Teodolinda Barolini, Susanne L. Wofford, Luciano Rossi, and Richard Kuhns. · A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.

The Decameron (International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393614662
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book The Decameron (International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents fifty-five stories, newly translated, of the hundred novelle that comprise Boccaccio’s masterpiece. Winner of the 2014 PEN USA Literary Award for Translation This Norton Critical Edition includes: · Fifty-five judiciously chosen stories from Wayne A. Rebhorn’s translation of The Decameron. · Introductory materials and explanatory footnotes by Wayne A. Rebhorn, along with three maps. · Biographical works by Filippo Villani and Ludovico Dolce along with literary studies by Francesco Petrarca, Andreas Capellanus, and Boccaccio. · Eleven critical essays, including those by Giuseppe Mazzotta, Millicent Marcus, Teodolinda Barolini, Susanne L. Wofford, Luciano Rossi, and Richard Kuhns. · A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.

The World at Play in Boccaccio's Decameron

Author : Giuseppe Mazzotta
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400854180
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The World at Play in Boccaccio's Decameron written by Giuseppe Mazzotta and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giuseppe Mazzotta provides both a powerful framework for reading the Decameron and an important contribution to medieval and contemporary debates in esthetics. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.