Author: The New York Times
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982170816
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
"Previously published as The decameron project."
Stories from Quarantine
Author: The New York Times
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982170816
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
"Previously published as The decameron project."
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982170816
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
"Previously published as The decameron project."
The New Decameron
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Tales from the Sara Gossa Manuscript
Author: Jan Potocki
Publisher: Ten Days in the Life of Alphon
ISBN: 9780946626670
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
S a Gothic novel quite an extraordinary piece of writing Czeslaw Milosz a work of magical intricacy which carries the torch of fantasy into our own century The baffled Alphonse is a precursor of the Kafka hero or the automata of the nouveau roman Dawid Coward
Publisher: Ten Days in the Life of Alphon
ISBN: 9780946626670
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
S a Gothic novel quite an extraordinary piece of writing Czeslaw Milosz a work of magical intricacy which carries the torch of fantasy into our own century The baffled Alphonse is a precursor of the Kafka hero or the automata of the nouveau roman Dawid Coward
The Decameron
Author: Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
In the time of a devastating pandemic, seven women and three men withdraw to a country estate outside Florence to give themselves a diversion from the death around them. Once there, they decide to spend some time each day telling stories, each of the ten to tell one story each day. They do this for ten days, with a few other days of rest in between, resulting in the 100 stories of the Decameron. The Decameron was written after the Black Plague spread through Italy in 1348. Most of the tales did not originate with Boccaccio; some of them were centuries old already in his time, but Boccaccio imbued them all with his distinctive style. The stories run the gamut from tragedy to comedy, from lewd to inspiring, and sometimes all of those at once. They also provide a detailed picture of daily life in fourteenth-century Italy.
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
In the time of a devastating pandemic, seven women and three men withdraw to a country estate outside Florence to give themselves a diversion from the death around them. Once there, they decide to spend some time each day telling stories, each of the ten to tell one story each day. They do this for ten days, with a few other days of rest in between, resulting in the 100 stories of the Decameron. The Decameron was written after the Black Plague spread through Italy in 1348. Most of the tales did not originate with Boccaccio; some of them were centuries old already in his time, but Boccaccio imbued them all with his distinctive style. The stories run the gamut from tragedy to comedy, from lewd to inspiring, and sometimes all of those at once. They also provide a detailed picture of daily life in fourteenth-century Italy.
The New Decameron
Author: pseud Blair
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The New Decameron
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The New Decameron ...
Author: Blair, XXX (pseud.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The Decameron
Author: Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734094968
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734094968
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Boccaccio’s Decameron and the Ciceronian Renaissance
Author: M. Grudin
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137056843
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Boccaccio's Decameron and the Ciceronian Renaissance demonstrates that Boccaccio's puzzling masterpiece takes on organic consistency when viewed as an early modern adaptation of a pre-Christian, humanistic vision.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137056843
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Boccaccio's Decameron and the Ciceronian Renaissance demonstrates that Boccaccio's puzzling masterpiece takes on organic consistency when viewed as an early modern adaptation of a pre-Christian, humanistic vision.
The Ethical Dimension of the 'Decameron'
Author: Marilyn Migiel
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442625767
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
With The Ethical Dimension of the “Decameron” Marilyn Migiel, author of A Rhetoric of the “Decameron” (winner of the MLA’s 2004 Marraro Prize), returns to Giovanni Boccaccio’s masterpiece, this time to focus on the dialogue about ethical choices that the Decameron creates with us and that we, as individuals and as groups, create with the Decameron. Maintaining that we can examine this dialogue to gain insights into our values, our biases and our decision-making processes, Migiel offers a view of the Decameron as sticky and thorny. According to Migiel, the Decameron catches us as we move through it, obligating us to reveal ourselves, inviting us to reflect on how we form our assessments, and calling upon us to be mindful of our responsibility to judge patiently and carefully. Migiel’s focus remains unabashedly on the experience of readers, on the meanings they find in the Decameron, and on the ideological assumptions they have about the way that a literary text such as the Decameron works. She offers that, rather than thinking about the Decameron as “teaching” readers, we should think about it “testing” them. Throughout, Migiel engages in the masterful in-depth rhetorical analyses, delivered in lively and readable prose, that are her trademark. Whether she is examining the Italian of the Decameron, translations of the Italian into English, commentaries by scholars, newspaper articles, or student essays, she asks us always to maintain an ethical engagement with the words of others.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442625767
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
With The Ethical Dimension of the “Decameron” Marilyn Migiel, author of A Rhetoric of the “Decameron” (winner of the MLA’s 2004 Marraro Prize), returns to Giovanni Boccaccio’s masterpiece, this time to focus on the dialogue about ethical choices that the Decameron creates with us and that we, as individuals and as groups, create with the Decameron. Maintaining that we can examine this dialogue to gain insights into our values, our biases and our decision-making processes, Migiel offers a view of the Decameron as sticky and thorny. According to Migiel, the Decameron catches us as we move through it, obligating us to reveal ourselves, inviting us to reflect on how we form our assessments, and calling upon us to be mindful of our responsibility to judge patiently and carefully. Migiel’s focus remains unabashedly on the experience of readers, on the meanings they find in the Decameron, and on the ideological assumptions they have about the way that a literary text such as the Decameron works. She offers that, rather than thinking about the Decameron as “teaching” readers, we should think about it “testing” them. Throughout, Migiel engages in the masterful in-depth rhetorical analyses, delivered in lively and readable prose, that are her trademark. Whether she is examining the Italian of the Decameron, translations of the Italian into English, commentaries by scholars, newspaper articles, or student essays, she asks us always to maintain an ethical engagement with the words of others.