The Ethical Dimension of the 'Decameron' /

The Ethical Dimension of the 'Decameron' / / Marilyn Migiel.

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With The Ethical Dimension of the “Decameron” Marilyn Migiel, author of A Rhetoric of the “Decameron” (winner of the MLA’s 2004 Marraro Prize), returns to Giovanni Boccaccio’s masterpiece, this time to focus on the dialogue about ethical choices that the Decameron creates with us and that we, as ind...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter ACUP Complete eBook-Package 2015
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Migiel, Marilyn,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Toronto Italian Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Citations of the Decameron
  • Introduction: The Ethical Dimension of the Decameron
  • 1. Wanted: Translators of the Decameron’s Moral and Ethical Complexities
  • 2. He Said, She Said, We Read: An Ethical Reflection on a Confluence of Voices
  • 3. Can the Lower Classes Be Wise? (For the Answer, See Your Translation of the Decameron)
  • 4. Some Restrictions Apply: Testing the Reader in Decameron 3.8
  • 5. Rushing to Judge? Read the Story of Tofano and Ghita (Decameron 7.4)
  • 6. New Lessons in Criticism and Blame from the Decameron
  • 7. He Ironizes, He Ironizes Not, He Ironizes
  • 8. To Conclude: A Conclusion That Is Not One
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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