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Reconsidering Boccaccio : medieval contexts and global intertexts
"Reconsidering Boccaccio highlights the great Florentine writer Giovanni Boccaccio s remarkable achievements in the fourteenth century as a cultural mediator; his exceptional social, geographic, and intellectual range; and the influence of his legacy on numerous cultural networks. Grounded in B...
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| Auteurs principaux : | , |
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| Format : | Livre |
| Langue : | anglais |
| Titre complet : | Reconsidering Boccaccio : medieval contexts and global intertexts / edited by Olivia Holmes and Dana E. Stewart |
| Publié : |
Toronto, Buffalo, London :
University of Toronto Press
, C 2018 |
| Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (VII-439 p.) |
| Collection : | Toronto Italian studies |
| Sujets : |
- Introduction / Olivia Holmes and Dana Stewart
- Part I : MATERIAL CONTEXTS
- 1. Text and (Inter)Face: The Catchwords in Boccaccio s Autograph of the Decameron / K. P. Clarke
- 2. Reading Boccaccio s Paratexts: Dedications as Thresholds between Worlds / Rhiannon Daniels
- Part II : SOCIAL CONTEXTS: FRIENDSHIP
- 3. Boccaccio on Friendships (Theory and Practice) / Jason Houston
- 4. Among Boccaccio s Friends: A Profile of Mainardo Cavalcanti / Todd Boli
- Part III : SOCIAL CONTEXTS: GENDER, MARRIAGE, AND THE LAW
- 5. Reading Like a Woman: Gendering Compassion in the Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta / Alessia Ronchetti
- 6. The Economics of Conjugal Debt from Gratian s Decretum to Decameron 2.10: Boccaccio, Canon Law, and the Loss of Interest in Sex / Grace Delmolino
- 7. Authority and Misogamy in Boccaccio s Trattatello in laude di Dante / Sara Diaz
- 8. What Turns on Whether Women are Human for Boccaccio and Christine de Pizan? / Mary Anne Case
- Part IV : POLITICAL AND AUTHORIAL CONTEXTS: ON FAMOUS WOMEN
- 9. On She-Wolves and Famous Women: Boccaccio, Politics, and the Neapolitan Court / Elizabeth Casteen
- 10. Christine Transforms Boccaccio: Gendered Authorship in the De mulieribus claris and the Cité des Dames / Kevin Brownlee
- 11. Reading like a Frenchwoman: Christine de Pizan s Treatment of Boccaccio s Johanna I and Andrea Acciaiu / Lori Walters
- Part V : LITERARY INTERTEXTS
- 12. A Persian in a Pear Tree: Middle Eastern Analogues for Pirro/Pyrrhus / Franklin Lewis
- 13. Splitting Pants and Pigs: The Fabliau Barat et Haimet and Narrative Strategies in Decameron 8.5 and 8.6 / Katherine A. Brown
- 14. The Tragicomedy of Lament: The Celestina and the Elegiac Legacy of Madonna Fiammetta / Filippo Andrei
- 15. Sins, Sex, and Secrets: The Legacy of Confession from the Decameron to the Heptaméron / Nora Peterson