The Cambridge companion to Boccaccio / edited by Guyda Armstrong, Rhiannon Daniels, Stephen J. Milner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Armstrong, Guyda, editor.

Daniels, Rhiannon, editor.

Milner, Stephen J., 1963- editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature.

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375--Criticism and interpretation.

Boccaccio, Giovanni.

Literature and society--Italy--History--To 1500.

Literature and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxv, 256 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Incorporating the most recent research by scholars in Italy, the UK, Ireland and North America, this collection of essays foregrounds Boccaccio's significance as a pre-eminent scholar and mediator of the classical and vernacular traditions, whose innovative textual practices confirm him as a figure of equal standing to Petrarch and Dante. Situating Boccaccio and his works in their cultural contexts, the Companion introduces a wide range of his texts, paying close attention to his formal innovations, elaborate voicing strategies, and the tensions deriving from his position as a medieval author who places women at the centre of his work. Four chapters are dedicated to different aspects of his masterpiece, the Decameron, while particular attention is paid to the material forms of his works: from his own textual strategies as the shaper of his own and others' literary legacies, to his subsequent editorial history, and translation into other languages and media.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Boccaccio as cultural mediator Guyda Armstrong, Rhiannon Daniels and Stephen J. Milner; 2. Boccaccio and his desk Beatrice Arduini; 3. Boccaccio's narrators and audiences Rhiannon Daniels; 4. The Decameron and narrative form Pier Massimo Forni; 5. The Decameron and Boccaccio's poetics David Lummus; 6. Boccaccio's Decameron and the semiotics of the everyday Stephen J. Milner; 7. Voicing gender in the Decameron F. Regina Psaki; 8. Boccaccio and Dante Guyda Armstrong; 9. Boccaccio and Petrarch Gur Zak; 10. Boccaccio and humanism Tobias Gittes; 11. Boccaccio and women Marilyn Migiel; 12. Editing Boccaccio Brian Richardson; 13. Translating Boccaccio Cormac Ó Cuilleáin; 14. Boccaccio beyond the text Massimo Riva; Guide to further reading.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-316-28759-9

1-316-30840-5

1-139-01398-X

OCLC:

919102877