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Authors: William Robins
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-07-09 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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Divided into ten days of ten novellas each, Boccaccio’s Decameron is one of the literary gems of the fourteenth century. The Decameron Eighth Day in Perspecti
The Decameron Ninth Day in Perspective
Language: en
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Categories: Literary Criticism
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The Ninth Day of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron is significant both for numerological and structural reasons. Whether we consider the Decameron as reproducing
Decameron Eighth Day in Perspective
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Pages: 293
Authors: William Robins
Categories: Literary Criticism
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Stories about pranks figure prominently in Boccaccio's Decameron. This book explores Boccaccio's poetics of repetition, accumulation, and contiguity in Day Eigh
The Decameron First Day in Perspective
Language: en
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Authors: Elissa B. Weaver
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-12-15 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron is the best known and most read work in Italian literature next to Dante's Divine Comedy. In the tradition of Lectura Dantis, the
The Decameron Third Day in Perspective
Language: en
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Authors: Francesco Ciabattoni
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-21 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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Divided into ten days of ten novellas each, Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron is one of the literary gems of the fourteenth century. The ‘Decameron’ Third Da