Boccaccio: Decameron (Paperback, New)

In Boccaccio's innovative text ten young people leave Florence to escape the Black Death of 1348, and organize their collective life in the countryside through the pleasure and discipline of storytelling. David Wallace guides the reader through their one hundred novelle, which explore both new and familiar conflicts with unprecendented subtlety, urgency and humor: everything from the struggle for domestic space, fought out between individual men and women, to the greater politics of the Mediterranean world where Christian and Arab meet. He emphasizes the relationship between the Decameron and the precocious proto-capitalist culture of Boccaccio's Florence. He also discusses gender issues and the influence of the text, particularly on Chaucer and on the novel.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Landmarks of World Literature
Release date:	August 1991
First published:	1991
Authors:	David J. Wallace
Dimensions:	200 x 129 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	132
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-38851-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
LSN:	0-521-38851-1
Barcode:	9780521388511

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