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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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Stories about pranks figure prominently in Boccaccio's Decameron. This book explores Boccaccio's poetics of repetition, accumulation, and contiguity in Day Eigh
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
The Decameron Ninth Day in Perspective
Language: en
Pages: 409
Authors: Simone Marchesi
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-03-31 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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The Ninth Day of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron is significant both for numerological and structural reasons. Whether we consider the Decameron as reproducing
The Decameron First Day in Perspective
Language: en
Pages: 282
Authors: Elissa B. Weaver
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-12-15 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron is the best known and most read work in Italian literature next to Dante's Divine Comedy. In the tradition of Lectura Dantis, the
Boccaccio Defends Literature
Language: en
Pages: 249
Authors: Brenda Deen Schildgen
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-11-30 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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In Boccaccio Defends Literature, Brenda Deen Schildgen contends that Giovanni Boccaccio’s significant contribution to literary history remains underappreciate