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Decameron Fourth Day in Perspective : Toronto Italian Studies - Michael Sherberg

Decameron Fourth Day in Perspective

By: Michael Sherberg (Editor)

Hardcover | 10 November 2020

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This volume, part of the Lectura Boccaccii series organized by the American Boccaccio Association, offers close readings by top scholars of Day Four of the Decameron. As fans of the Decameron know, the Fourth Day opens with an important intervention in which the author defends his project against his critics, which coincides with a significant change in tone as the subject matter turns to stories with unhappy endings. The contributors approach the stories from a variety of perspectives, including the linguistic, philosophical, anthropological, and literary historical. These fresh readings of stories that are nearly seven hundred years old testify to the enduring power of Boccaccio’s masterpiece to speak to new audiences and to find compelling relevance even at a great distance from its immediate medieval context.

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"In each of these eleven essays, the contributors offer significant innovations and are mindful to integrate the latest scholarly perspectives in their analysis. Traditional readings have [...] been enriched and modernized, with special attention paid to questions of gender and the relation between spaces and plots, making this volume an innovative and essential tool for the study of the fourth day of the Decameron." -- Nicola Esposito, PhD Candidate, University of Notre Dame * Annali d'italianistica *

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