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A Rhetoric of the Decameron
Language: en
Pages: 244
Authors: Marilyn Migiel
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-01-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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"Addressing herself equally to those who argue for proto-feminist Boccaccio - a quasi-liberal champion of women's autonomy - and to those who argue for a positi
The Ethical Dimension of the 'Decameron'
Language: en
Pages: 269
Authors: Marilyn Migiel
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-09-15 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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With The Ethical Dimension of the “Decameron” Marilyn Migiel, author of A Rhetoric of the “Decameron” (winner of the MLA’s 2004 Marraro Prize), return
Boccaccio the Philosopher
Language: en
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Authors: Filippo Andrei
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-07 - Publisher: Springer

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This book explores the tangled relationship between literary production and epistemological foundation as exemplified in one of the masterpieces of Italian lite
Boccaccio and Exemplary Literature
Language: en
Pages: 287
Authors: Olivia Holmes
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-01-31 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This is the first monograph to provide a comprehensive interpretation of the Decameron's response to classical and medieval didactic traditions. Olivia Holmes u
The Decameron Eighth Day in Perspective
Language: en
Pages: 293
Authors: William Robins
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-07-09 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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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 Perspecti