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Boccaccio's Naked Muse : Eros, Culture, and the Mythopoeic Imagination /

"Boccaccio's Naked Muse examines a writer who cast himself as the apostle of a new humanistic faith, one that would honour God by exalting his creation. In this study, Tobias Foster Gittes argues that Boccaccio did not simply reproduce Golden Age schemes in his works, but rather subtly alt...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Gittes, Tobias Foster
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Italiano
Latín
Publié: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2008
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • 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. Myth of a New Beginning: Boccaccio's Palingenetic Paradise
  • 4. Myth of Historical Foresight: Babel and Beyond.