Cambridge Companions to Literature

Cambridge Companions to Literature

Daniels, Rhiannon; Armstrong, Guyda; Milner, Stephen J.

Cambridge University Press

07/2015

298

Dura

Inglês

9781107014350

15 a 20 dias

This Companion provides a comprehensive and revisionary account of the life and works of Giovanni Boccaccio and his reception over the seven hundred years since his birth. Drawing upon the most recent research and archival discoveries, this collection of essays re-evaluates Boccaccio's status within the Italian and global literary canon.
Part I. Locating Boccaccio: 1. Boccaccio as cultural mediator Guyda Armstrong, Rhiannon Daniels and Stephen J. Milner; 2. Boccaccio and his desk Beatrice Arduini; 3. Boccaccio's narrators and audiences Rhiannon Daniels; Part II. Literary Forms and Narrative Voices: 4. The Decameron and narrative form Pier Massimo Forni; 5. The Decameron and Boccaccio's poetics David Lummus; 6. Boccaccio's Decameron and the semiotics of the everyday Stephen J. Milner; 7. Voicing gender in the Decameron F. Regina Psaki; Part III. Boccaccio's Literary Contexts: 8. Boccaccio and Dante Guyda Armstrong; 9. Boccaccio and Petrarch Gur Zak; 10. Boccaccio and humanism Tobias Gittes; 11. Boccaccio and women Marilyn Migiel; Part IV. Transmission and Adaptation: 12. Editing Boccaccio Brian Richardson; 13. Translating Boccaccio Cormac O Cuilleanain; 14. Boccaccio beyond the text Massimo Riva; Guide to further reading.
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