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Boccaccio: Decameron (Paperback, New)
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Boccaccio: Decameron (Paperback, New)
Series: Landmarks of World Literature
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Loot Price R529
Discovery Miles 5 290
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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.
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