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Author : Robert Hollander
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0472107674
Fresh views about Boccaccio's reliance on Dante
Author : Suzanne Conklin Akbari,James Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191649370
As the 'father' of the English literary canon, one of a very few writers to appear in every 'great books' syllabus, Chaucer is seen as an author whose works are fundamentally timeless: an author who, like Shakespeare, exemplifies the almost magical power of poetry to appeal to each generation of readers. Every age remakes its own Chaucer, developing new understandings of how his poetry intersects with contemporary ways of seeing the world, and the place of the subject who lives in it. This Handbook comprises a series of essays by established scholars and emerging voices that address Chaucer's poetry in the context of several disciplines, including late medieval philosophy and science, Mediterranean Studies, comparative literature, vernacular theology, and popular devotion. The volume paints the field in broad strokes and sections include Biography and Circumstances of Daily Life; Chaucer in the European Frame; Philosophy and Science in the Universities; Christian Doctrine and Religious Heterodoxy; and the Chaucerian Afterlife. Taken as a whole, The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer offers a snapshot of the current state of the field, and a bold suggestion of the trajectories along which Chaucer studies are likely to develop in the future.
Author : Richard Lansing
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2067 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136849718
Available for the first time in paperback, this essential resource presents a systematic introduction to Dante's life and works, his cultural context and intellectual legacy. The only such work available in English, this Encyclopedia: brings together contemporary theories on Dante, summarizing them in clear and vivid prose provides in-depth discussions of the Divine Comedy, looking at title and form, moral structure, allegory and realism, manuscript tradition, and also taking account of the various editions of the work over the centuries contains numerous entries on Dante's other important writings and on the major subjects covered within them addresses connections between Dante and philosophy, theology, poetics, art, psychology, science, and music as well as critical perspective across the ages, from Dante's first critics to the present.
Author : Fabian Alfie
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442693470
‘And by now, mind, it’s too late to redeem your debts by giving up guzzling.’ Dante's poetic correspondence (or tenzone) with Forese Donati, a relative of his wife, was rife with crude insults: the two men derided one another on topics ranging from sexual dysfunction and cowardice to poverty and thievery. But in his Commedia, rather than denying this correspondence, Dante repeatedly acknowledged and evoked the memory of his youthful put-downs. Dante's Tenzone with Forese Donati examines the lasting impact of these sonnets on Dante's writings and Italian literary culture, notably in the work of Giovanni Boccaccio. Fabian Alfie expands on derision as an ethical dimension of medieval literature, both facilitating the reprehension of vice and encouraging ongoing debates about the true nature of nobility. Outlining a broad perspective on the uses of literary insult, Dante's Tenzone with Forese Donati also provides an evocative glimpse of Dante's day-to-day life in the twelfth century.
Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 1023 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393069303
A new translation of the Renaissance work comprising the one hundred short stories that ten young Florentines tell each other as they're passing the time in the countryside around Fiesole, attempting to escape the Black Death.
Author : Francesco Ciabattoni,Pier Massimo Forni
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442616448
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.
Author : Martin Eisner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107041660
This book examines Boccaccio's pivotal role in legitimizing the vernacular literature of Dante, Petrarch and Cavalcanti through argument, narrative and transcription.
Author : V. Ferme
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137482815
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.
Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 2822 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110215588
This interdisciplinary handbook provides extensive information about research in medieval studies and its most important results over the last decades. The handbook is a reference work which enables the readers to quickly and purposely gain insight into the important research discussions and to inform themselves about the current status of research in the field. The handbook consists of four parts. The first, large section offers articles on all of the main disciplines and discussions of the field. The second section presents articles on the key concepts of modern medieval studies and the debates therein. The third section is a lexicon of the most important text genres of the Middle Ages. The fourth section provides an international bio-bibliographical lexicon of the most prominent medievalists in all disciplines. A comprehensive bibliography rounds off the compendium. The result is a reference work which exhaustively documents the current status of research in medieval studies and brings the disciplines and experts of the field together.
Author : David Lummus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108839457
Shows how medieval Italian poets viewed their authorship of poetry as a function of their engagement in a human community.
Author : Leah Schwebel
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487552619
While scholars have long explored connections between Chaucer and Boccaccio, relatively few have asked why Chaucer makes such a habit of obscuring the influence of his favourite vernacular author. Tropes of Engagement asks the question of what motivated Chaucer to camouflage his debt to his most prominent, yet never named, Italian source: Giovanni Boccaccio. Leah Schwebel boldly claims that when Chaucer erases Boccaccio, he is mimicking strategies of translation practiced by his classical and continental predecessors. Tracing popular narratives from antiquity to the late Middle Ages, including the Knight’s Tale, the Clerk’s Tale, the Monk’s Tale, Troilus and Criseyde, and Lydgate’s Fall of Princes and Troy Book, Schwebel argues that authorial erasure, invention, and manipulation are recognizable literary tropes of engagement that poets employ to suggest their connection to, and place within, a broader authorial tradition. Combining an attention to the cultural, historical, and material circumstances surrounding literary production with a mode of source study that looks beyond discernable influence, Tropes of Engagement recognizes authors self-consciously erasing and misreading each other as part of a process of mutual and self-promotion.
Author : Filippo Andrei
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319651156
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.
Author : Guyda Armstrong,Rhiannon Daniels,Stephen J. Milner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107014350
A major re-evaluation of Boccaccio's status as literary innovator and cultural mediator equal to that of Petrarch and Dante.
Author : Leonard Michael Koff,Brenda Deen Schildgen
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838638007
That resistance, informed by a model of literary influence grounded on the idea of interruption, would keep the Canterbury Tales away from the Decameron, though not the rest of Chaucer from other works by Boccaccio. In the end, of course, that resistance tells us more about Chaucer's reception since the fifteenth century than about Chaucer himself or his sources."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Timothy Kircher
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004146372
The book explores the philosophical thinking of Petrarch and Boccaccio in contrast to the writings of contemporary mendicants. Examining both Latin and vernacular works, it investigates how these humanists poetically express the temporal, subjective, and emotional quality of moral sensibility, in a way that shifts to the reader the weight of discerning the ethical message. The book centers its analysis on a series of paradoxes pondered by these humanists: the self that changes yet persists over time; the awareness of self-deception; the individual's validation of authority; and the ethics of pleasure. This study is valuable to those interested in Renaissance philosophy, literature, religion, and the history of ideas.