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Author | : Guyda Armstrong |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 734 |
Release | : 2013-10-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1442668555 |
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The Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio has had a long and colourful history in English translation. This new interdisciplinary study presents the first exploration of the reception of Boccaccio’s writings in English literary culture, tracing his presence from the early fifteenth century to the 1930s. Guyda Armstrong tells this story through a wide-ranging journey through time and space – from the medieval reading communities of Naples and Avignon to the English court of Henry VIII, from the censorship of the Decameron to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, from the world of fine-press printing to the clandestine pornographers of 1920s New York, and much more. Drawing on the disciplines of book history, translation studies, comparative literature, and visual studies, the author focuses on the book as an object, examining how specific copies of manuscripts and printed books were presented to an English readership by a variety of translators. Armstrong is thereby able to reveal how the medieval text in translation is remade and re-authorized for every new generation of readers.
Author | : Herbert G. Wright |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 2014-01-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1472511042 |
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Professor Wright's objective is to see Boccaccio in relation to the personality of the writers to whom he appealed and simultaneously to observe the changing taste of successive ages as it was revealed by their choice among Bocccaccio's writings. Boccaccio was also a Eurpoean literary phenomenon, and this study attempts to consider his fortunes on the Continent. In considering Chaucer's relation to Boccaccio, the author examines Chaucer's poems afresh, studying the Italian originals closely in order to ascertain the precise nature of the English adaptation or transformation. Various minor figures of English literature are also dealt with at some length due to the importance of Boccaccio's influence on their work.
Author | : Giovanni Boccaccio |
Publisher | : BoD - Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 1040 |
Release | : 2023-07-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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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.
Author | : Guyda Armstrong |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 493 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1442646039 |
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"The Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio has had a long and colourful history in English translation. This new interdisciplinary study presents the first exploration of the reception of Boccaccio's writings in English literary culture, tracing his presence from the early fifteenth century to the 1930s. Guyda Armstrong tells this story through a wide-ranging journey through time and space -- from the medieval reading communities of Naples and Avignon to the English court of Henry VIII, from the censorship of the Decameron to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, from the world of fine-press printing to the clandestine pornographers of 1920s New York, and much more. Drawing on the disciplines of book history, translation studies, comparative literature, and visual studies, the author focuses on the book as an object, examining how specific copies of manuscripts and printed books were presented to an English readership by a variety of translators. Armstrong is thereby able to reveal how the medieval text in translation is remade and re-authorized for every new generation of readers." -- Publisher's description.
Author | : Martin Eisner |
Publisher | : University of Notre Dame Pess |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2019-06-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 026810591X |
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A Boccaccian Renaissance brings together essays written by internationally recognized scholars in diverse national traditions to respond to the largely unaddressed question of Boccaccio’s impact on early modern literature and culture in Italy and Europe. Martin Eisner and David Lummus co-edit the first comprehensive examination in English of Boccaccio’s impact on the Renaissance. The essays investigate what it means to follow a Boccaccian model, in tandem with or in place of ancient authors such as Vergil or Cicero, or modern poets such as Dante or Petrarch. The book probes how deeply the Latin and vernacular works of Boccaccio spoke to the Renaissance humanists of the fifteenth century. It treats not only the literary legacy of Boccaccio’s works but also their paradoxical importance for the history of the Italian language and reception in theater and books of conduct. While the geographical focus of many of the essays is on Italy, the volume concludes with three studies that open new inroads to understanding his influence on Spanish, French, and English writers across the sixteenth century. The book will appeal strongly to scholars and students of Boccaccio, the Italian and European Renaissance, and Italian literature. Contributors: Jonathan Combs-Schilling, Rhiannon Daniels, Martin Eisner, Simon Gilson, James Hankins, Timothy Kircher, Victoria Kirkham, David Lummus, Ronald L. Martinez, Ignacio Navarrete, Brian Richardson, Marc Schachter, Michael Sherberg, and Janet Levarie Smarr
Author | : Giovanni Boccaccio |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 626 |
Release | : 1928 |
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Download The Decameron of Giovani Boccaccio Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Francis MacManus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1947 |
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Download Boccaccio. [Illustr.] - London: Sheed & Ward 1947. XII, 267 S. 8° Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Franklin Samuel Stych |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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English criticism of Boccaccion in English, and foreign language studies by English-speaking authors.
Author | : Giovanni Boccaccio |
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Release | : 1886 |
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Author | : Florence Nightingale Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 1910 |
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