Boccaccio In England

Author : Herbert G. Wright
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472511041

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Boccaccio in England by Herbert G. Wright Pdf

Professor Wright's objective is to see Boccaccio in relation to the personality of the writers to whom he appealed and simultaneously to observe the changing taste of successive ages as it was revealed by their choice among Bocccaccio's writings. Boccaccio was also a Eurpoean literary phenomenon, and this study attempts to consider his fortunes on the Continent. In considering Chaucer's relation to Boccaccio, the author examines Chaucer's poems afresh, studying the Italian originals closely in order to ascertain the precise nature of the English adaptation or transformation. Various minor figures of English literature are also dealt with at some length due to the importance of Boccaccio's influence on their work.

Author : Guyda Armstrong
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442668553

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The English Boccaccio by Guyda Armstrong Pdf

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.

Author : Guyda Armstrong
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442646032

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The English Boccaccio by Guyda Armstrong Pdf

"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.

Author : Herbert Gladstone Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : English literature
ISBN : UOM:39015019809055

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Boccacio in England, from Chaucer to Tennyson by Herbert Gladstone Wright Pdf

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio,Nicholas R. Havely
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 085991349X

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Chaucer's Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio,Nicholas R. Havely Pdf

`The notes are a model of economy... The introduction is quite superb... The volume as a whole is a worthy addition to a series which has already begun to establish high expectations.' TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT`It reminds us just how good Boccaccio is.' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENTChaucer made extensive use of Boccacio's romances as a basis for his major works, and any analysis of his handling of his sources must depend on a knowledge of the Italian poet's work.

Author : Martin Eisner,David G. Lummus
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780268105914

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A Boccaccian Renaissance by Martin Eisner,David G. Lummus Pdf

A Boccaccian Renaissance brings together essays written by internationally recognized scholars in diverse national traditions to respond to the largely unaddressed question of Boccaccio’s impact on early modern literature and culture in Italy and Europe. Martin Eisner and David Lummus co-edit the first comprehensive examination in English of Boccaccio’s impact on the Renaissance. The essays investigate what it means to follow a Boccaccian model, in tandem with or in place of ancient authors such as Vergil or Cicero, or modern poets such as Dante or Petrarch. The book probes how deeply the Latin and vernacular works of Boccaccio spoke to the Renaissance humanists of the fifteenth century. It treats not only the literary legacy of Boccaccio’s works but also their paradoxical importance for the history of the Italian language and reception in theater and books of conduct. While the geographical focus of many of the essays is on Italy, the volume concludes with three studies that open new inroads to understanding his influence on Spanish, French, and English writers across the sixteenth century. The book will appeal strongly to scholars and students of Boccaccio, the Italian and European Renaissance, and Italian literature. Contributors: Jonathan Combs-Schilling, Rhiannon Daniels, Martin Eisner, Simon Gilson, James Hankins, Timothy Kircher, Victoria Kirkham, David Lummus, Ronald L. Martinez, Ignacio Navarrete, Brian Richardson, Marc Schachter, Michael Sherberg, and Janet Levarie Smarr

Author : Geoffrey Bullough
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0231088981

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Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare by Geoffrey Bullough Pdf

Author : Michele Marrapodi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 679 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781317044161

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The Routledge Research Companion to Anglo-Italian Renaissance Literature and Culture by Michele Marrapodi Pdf

The aim of this Companion volume is to provide scholars and advanced graduate students with a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of current research work on Anglo-Italian Renaissance studies. Written by a team of international scholars and experts in the field, the chapters are grouped into two large areas of influence and intertextuality, corresponding to the dual way in which early modern England looked upon the Italian world from the English perspective – Part 1: "Italian literature and culture" and Part 2: "Appropriations and ideologies". In the first part, prominent Italian authors, artists, and thinkers are examined as a direct source of inspiration, imitation, and divergence. The variegated English response to the cultural, ideological, and political implications of pervasive Italian intertextuality, in interrelated aspects of artistic and generic production, is dealt with in the second part. Constructed on the basis of a largely interdisciplinary approach, the volume offers an in-depth and wide-ranging treatment of the multifaceted ways in which Italy’s material world and its iconologies are represented, appropriated, and exploited in the literary and cultural domain of early modern England. For this reason, contributors were asked to write essays that not only reflect current thinking but also point to directions for future research and scholarship, while a purposefully conceived bibliography of primary and secondary sources and a detailed index round off the volume.

Author : Norma Lorre Goodrich
Publisher : Librairie Droz
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Civilization, Medieval, in literature
ISBN : 260003482X

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Charles of Orleans by Norma Lorre Goodrich Pdf

Author : Tobias Foster Gittes
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442691438

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Boccaccio's Naked Muse by Tobias Foster Gittes Pdf

Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) experimented with such a wide variety of genres that critics have tended to focus more on the differences among his works than on their underlying similarities. However, a more comprehensive examination of his corpus reveals that concealed beneath this striking diversity of subject and genre there is a coherent mythology, a virtual catalogue of innovative myths designed to more accurately reflect his cultural experience and better address the needs of his age. Exploring the most significant of these myths, /emBoccaccio's Naked Muse/em presents a writer who cast himself as the apostle of a new humanistic faith, one that would honour God by exalting his creation. Tobias Foster Gittes argues that Boccaccio did not simply reproduce Golden Age schemes in his works. Rather, he subtly altered and adapted them in order to produce a model of human beatitude more suited to his conviction that cultural achievement and human dignity are indissolubly linked. Gittes critiques common conceptions of Boccaccio's passivity, or his readiness to speak dismissively of his own work and to cast himself as a victim of vicious critics. Instead, Gittes shows that Boccaccio deliberately assumed this posture of passivity to align himself with a series of martyrs who, like him, had willingly suffered torments in the interest of cultural advancement. By 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 and his lifelong campaign to transform mythological traditions into a gift for all humanity.

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : Delphi Classics
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781788779067

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Giovanni Boccaccio A Biographical Study by Edward Hutton by Giovanni Boccaccio - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) by Giovanni Boccaccio Pdf

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Giovanni Boccaccio A Biographical Study by Edward Hutton by Giovanni Boccaccio - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Collected Works of Giovanni Boccaccio’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Boccaccio includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘Giovanni Boccaccio A Biographical Study by Edward Hutton by Giovanni Boccaccio - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Boccaccio’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles

Author : Edward Hutton
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547250067

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Giovanni Boccaccio, a Biographical Study by Edward Hutton Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Giovanni Boccaccio, a Biographical Study" by Edward Hutton. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : George Watson,Ian Roy Willison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1322 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1974-08-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521200040

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The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660 by George Watson,Ian Roy Willison Pdf

More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 1 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.

Author : Daniel Wakelin,Lecturer in English Daniel Wakelin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199215881

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Humanism, Reading, & English Literature 1430-1530 by Daniel Wakelin,Lecturer in English Daniel Wakelin Pdf

Wakelin uses new methods and theories in the history of reading to uncover fresh information about the design, ownership, and marginalia of books in a neglected period in English literary history. This is the first book to identify the origins of the humanist tradition in England in the 15th century.

Author : Isabel Rivers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134844173

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Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry by Isabel Rivers Pdf

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. It: provides an account of the main classical and Christian ideas, outlining their meaning, their origins and their transmission to the Renaissance; illustrates the ways in which Renaissance poetry drew on classical and Christian ideas; contains extracts from key classical and Christian texts and relates these to the extracts of the English poems which draw on them; includes suggestions for further reading, and an invaluable bibliographical appendix.