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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820250903321

Titolo

The Italian novella : a book of essays / / edited by Gloria Allaire

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-415-86939-0

1-135-35467-7

0-203-95309-6

1-135-35460-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (441 p.)

Collana

Routledge Medieval Casebooks

Altri autori (Persone)

AllaireGloria <1954->

Disciplina

853.009

Soggetti

Novelle - History and criticism

Italian fiction - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published 2003 by Taylor & Francis Books, Inc."--T.p. verso.

Developed from papers presented at The world of the Novella sessions held at the 35th and 36th International Congresses on Medieval Studies, in 2000 and 2001, respectively, under the sponsorship of the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University, in Kalamazoo. With additional original contributions.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Lies My Father Told Me: Boccaccio's Novelletta of Filippo Balducci and His Son; 2. The Crisis of Word and Deed in Decameron V, 10; 3. Master and Servant Roles in the Decameron; 4. Telling Lies, Telling Lives: Giovanni Sercambi between Cronaca and Novella; 5. Sercambi's Novelliere and Croniche as Evidence for Musical Entertainment in the Fourteenth Century; 6. The Lover Praised by the Husband: A Courtly Tale between Exemplum and Novella; 7. Masuccio Salernitano's Gusto dell'orrido

8. Imitation and Subversion of Models in Agnolo Firenzuola's I Ragionamenti9. Alterity and Sexual Transgression in the Sixteenth-Century Tuscan Novella; 10. Animal Anxieties: Straparola's 'Il re porco'; 11. The Motif of the Woman in Male Disguise from Boccaccio to Bigolina; Contributors; Author/Title Index; Subject Index



Sommario/riassunto

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.