Adventures in Speech : : Rhetoric and Narration in Boccaccio's "Decameron" / / Pier Massimo Forni.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Forni, Pier Massimo,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Series: The Middle Ages Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (176 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Content --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Chapter 1: Configurations of Discourse --; Chapter 2: Pleasure and Response --; Chapter 3: Realism and the Needs of the Story --; Chapter 4: The Poetics of Realization --; Chapter 5: Rhetoric and Narration in the Story of Zima --; Afterword --; Appendix: Horror of Incest and Seduction of Literature in Boccaccio’s Decameron --; Notes --; Works Consulted --; Index --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512804270; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512804270
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Pier Massimo Forni.

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1996The Decameron is a narrative account of a situation in which narration takes place-a collection of one hundred stories set within a larger story. As a group of young men and women fleeing the plague trade stories to pass the time of crisis, storytelling occurs in a social context that allows for comment upon the tales by the tellers themselves, in a setting that elicits one story in return for another.In his close and original analysis, Pier Massimo Forni uses the notion of rhetoric as a guiding principle for a critical assessment of the Decameron. He explores the discursive tools with which the narrators connect the contents of their stories to their audience's environment, and goes on to argue that the book is significantly marked by Boccaccio's habit of exploring the narrative potential of rhetorical forms.By showing how the Decameron marks a new stage in the development of vernacular realism, Forni also charts a new course in Boccaccio criticism. Viewing the cultural and rhetorical context of the medieval masterpiece from a fresh perspective, he offers intriguing insights into the functioning of Boccaccio's narrative. Adventures in Speech maps the cognitive poetic processes that rule the complex authorial network of relationships involving speech, event, received culture, and narrative objects.