Adventures in Speech : : Rhetoric and Narration in Boccaccio's "Decameron" / / 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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©1996 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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