Boccaccio's Naked Muse : : Eros, Culture, and the Mythopoeic Imagination / / Tobias Foster Gittes.
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 diversi...
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2008 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on the Translations and Editions
- Introduction
- 1. Universal Myths of Origin: Boccaccio and the Golden Age Motif
- 2. Local Myths of Origin: The Birth of the City and the Self
- 3. The Myth of a New Beginning: Boccaccio's Palingenetic Paradise
- 4. The Myth of Historical Foresight: Babel and Beyond
- Notes
- Works Consulted
- Index