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Keen and violent remedies : social satire and the grotesque in Masuccio Salernitano's "Novellino" / Michael Papio.
Van Pelt Library PQ4630.M26 N637 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Papio, Michael, 1967-
- Series:
- Renaissance and Baroque studies and texts ; v. 28.
- Renaissance and Baroque studies and texts ; v. 28
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Masuccio, Salernitano, active 15th century. Novellino.
- Masuccio.
- Social history in literature.
- Satire, Italian--History and criticism.
- Satire, Italian.
- Grotesque in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 192 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : P. Lang, [2000]
- Contents:
- I. Narrative Choices and Authorial Voices 15
- II. Aristocratic Anxiety and Anticlericalism 39
- Anticlericalism as Grotesque Demonization 49
- Anticlericalism as Grotesque Derision 63
- III. Misogynistic Tale As Horror Story 83
- Pollution and Unnatural Acts 91
- Pollution and Betrayals of the Faith 104
- IV. Arming the Comic: Masuccio's Grotesque 125.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [157]-184) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0820444057
- OCLC:
- 39765302
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