Adventures in Speech : Rhetoric and Narration in Boccaccio's Decameron /

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1996 The 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 o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Forni, Pier Massimo
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Colección:The Middle Ages Series
Temas:
Boccaccio, Giovanni, > 1313-1375. > Decamerone.
Boccaccio, Giovanni, > 1313-1375 > Technique.
Boccaccio, Giovanni, > 1313-1375.
Decamerone (Boccaccio, Giovanni)
To 1500
Narration (Rhetoric) > History > To 1500.
Rhetoric, Medieval.
Rhétorique médiévale.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Renaissance.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Technique.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Content
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I. The Rhetoric of Selection and Response
  • Chapter 1: Configurations of Discourse
  • Chapter 2: Pleasure and Response
  • Part II. The Rhetoric of Beginnings
  • Chapter 3: Realism and the Needs of the Story
  • Part III. Rhetoric and Imagination
  • 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

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