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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809592703321

Autore

Gittes Tobias Foster

Titolo

Boccaccio's naked muse : eros, culture, and the mythopoeic imagination / / Tobias Foster Git

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2008

©2008

ISBN

1-4426-9143-3

1-4426-8746-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (382 p.)

Collana

Toronto Italian studies

Disciplina

858/.109

Soggetti

Eros (Greek deity) in literature

Myth in literature

Culture in literature

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-346) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Universal Myths of Origin: Boccaccio and the Golden Age Motif -- 2. Local Myths of Origin: The Birth of the City and the Self -- 3. Myth of a New Beginning: Boccaccio's Palingenetic Paradise -- 4. Myth of Historical Foresight: Babel and Beyond.

Sommario/riassunto

"Boccaccio's Naked Muse examines a writer who cast himself as the apostle of a new humanistic faith, one that would honour God by exalting his creation. In this study, Tobias Foster Gittes argues that Boccaccio did not simply reproduce Golden Age schemes in his works, but rather subtly altered and adapted them to produce a model of human beatitude more suited to his conviction that cultural achievement and human dignity are indissolubly linked."--Jacket.