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Approaches to teaching Boccaccio's Decameron / edited by James H. McGregor.
LIBRA PQ4287 .A77 2000
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Approaches to teaching world literature ; 69.
- Approaches to teaching world literature ; 69
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. Decamerone.
- Boccaccio, Giovanni.
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375--Study and teaching.
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 207 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2000.
- Summary:
- Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 1059-1133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, student teachers, education specialists, and teachers in all humanities disciplines will find these volumes particularly helpful.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Materials / James H. McGregor
- Editions and Translations 3
- Required and Recommended Reading for Undergraduates 4
- The Instructor's Library 4
- Reference Works 4
- Biographies and Background Works 5
- Critical Studies 8
- Collections of Essays 9
- Articles 9
- Audiovisual and Electronic Resources 10
- Part 2 Approaches
- Introduction: The Decameron in the Classroom 15
- Teaching the Decameron in Its Traditions
- Narrative in the Decameron and the Thousand and One Nights / Bonnie D. Irwin 21
- Non-Christian People and Spaces in the Decameron / Janet Levarie Smarr 31
- Boccaccio's Hidden Debt to Dante / Robert Hollander 39
- The Decameron's Secular Designs / Julia Reinhard Lupton 44
- Patterns of Meaning in the Decameron / Michael Papio 51
- Teaching the Decameron in a Historical Context / Steven M. Grossvogel 63
- Reflections on the Criticism of the Decameron / Giuseppe Mazzotta 70
- Gender and Sexuality in the Decameron
- Women in the Decameron / F. Regina Psaki 79
- Medieval Fantasies: Other Worlds and the Role of the Other in the Decameron / Marga Cottino-Jones 87
- Anatomizing Boccaccio's Sexual Festivity / Raymond-Jean Frontain 95
- The Influence of the Decameron
- The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales / Robert W. Hanning 103
- The Novella Tradition in Italy after Boccaccio / James H. McGregor 119
- From the Decameron to the Heptameron / Aldo Scaglione 127
- The Decameron in Spain / Robert E. Bayliss 134
- The Decameron and Italian Renaissance Comedy / Angelo Mazzocco, Elizabeth H. D. Mazzocco 142
- Boccaccio and the Visual Arts
- Early Portraits of Boccaccio: A Doorway to the Decameron / Victoria Kirkham 149
- The Decameron on Film / Kevin J. Harty 164
- The Decameron Web: Teaching a Classic as Hypertext at Brown University / Massimo Riva 172.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-201) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0873527615
- 0873527623
- OCLC:
- 44516796
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