David J. Wallace

Boccaccio

Decameron
Herausgeber: Stern, J. P.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ten young people leave Florence to escape the Black Death of 1348, and organize life in the countryside through the pleasure and discipline of story-telling. David Wallace discusses their 100 "novelles" along with Florentine culture, gender issues and the wider influences of the text.

Produktdetails

• Landmarks of World Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 132
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 176g
• ISBN-13: 9780521388511
• ISBN-10: 0521388511
• Artikelnr.: 21863132

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Chronology
Part I. The Making of the Decameron: 1. The Decameron as a landmark of world literature
2. Boccaccio, Naples and Florence before the Decameron
Part II. The Decameron: 3. Title and preface
4. First Day (Introduction)
(i) the plague
(ii) the mise-en-scene
5. First Day: the saint's life and the powers of language
6. Second Day: fortune, female character and the impulse to trade
7. Third Day: sex, voice and morals
8. Fourth Day (introduction): Boccaccio's apology for Florentine prose
9. Fourth Day: love and feudal aristocracy
10. Fifth Day: romance, class difference, social negotiation
11. Sixth Day: Florentine society and associational form
12. Seventh Day: controlling domestic space
13. Eighth Day: the scholar and the widow
14. Ninth Day: the mystery of Calandrino
15. Tenth Day: magnificance and myths of power
16. The return to Florence and the author's conclusion
Part III. After the Decameron: Guide to further reading.