9780812233384 - Adventures in Speech: Rhetoric and Narration in Boccaccio's Decameron (Middle Ages Series) von Forni, Pier Massimo (6 Ergebnisse)

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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 155 pages. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-151) and index. Contents; Frontmatter -- Content -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. The Rhetoric of Selection and Response -- Chapter 1: Configurations of Discourse -- Chapter 2: Pleasure and Response -- Part II. The Rhetoric of Beginnings -- Chapter 3: Realism and the Needs of the Story -- Part III. Rhetoric and Imagination -- Chapter 4: The Poetics of Realization -- Chapter 5: Rhetoric and Narration in the Story of Zima -- Afterword -- Appendix: Horror of Incest and Seduction of Literature in Boccaccio's Decameron -- Notes -- Works Consulted -- Index -- Backmatter. Subjects; Boccaccio, Giovanni 1313-1375 Decameron. Boccaccio, Giovanni 1313-1375 Technique. Boccaccio, Giovanni 1313-1375 Decameron Criticism and interpretation. Boccaccio, Giovanni 1313-1375. Boccaccio, Giovanni 1313-1375 Style. To 1500. Narration (Rhetoric) History To 1500. Rhetoric, Medieval. Narration (Rhetoric). LITERARY CRITICISM. LITERARY CRITICISM Renaissance. 3 Kg.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1996 The Decameron is a narrative account of a situation in which narration takes place-a collection of one hundred stories set within a larger story. As a group of young men and women fleeing the plague trade stories to pass the time of crisis, storytelling occurs in a social context that allows for comment upon the tales by the tellers themselves, in a setting that elicits one story in return for another. In his close and original analysis, Pier Massimo Forni uses the notion of rhetoric as a guiding principle for a critical assessment of the Decameron. He explores the discursive tools with which the narrators connect the contents of their stories to their audience's environment, and goes on to argue that the book is significantly marked by Boccaccio's habit of exploring the narrative potential of rhetorical forms. By showing how the Decameron marks a new stage in the development of vernacular realism, Forni also charts a new course in Boccaccio criticism. Viewing the cultural and rhetorical context of the medieval masterpiece from a fresh perspective, he offers intriguing insights into the functioning of Boccaccio's narrative. Adventures in Speech maps the cognitive poetic processes that rule the complex authorial network of relationships involving speech, event, received culture, and narrative objects.