00934cam0-22003251i-450-99000740351040332120150724105259.02724604016000740351FED01000740351(Aleph)000740351FED0100074035120030331d1978----km-y0itay50------bafreFRy---n---001yy<<Les >>regimes parlementaires contemporainsJean-Claude ColliardParisPresses de la Fondation Nationale de Sciences Politiquesc1978368 p.24 cm321.804319itaColliard,Jean-Claude267656ITUNINARICAUNIMARCBK990007403510403321DP VII - 4011676DECXXVII 50095DDCICDECDDCICRegimes parlementaires contemporains691306UNINA04282nam 2200709 450 991045682160332120200520144314.01-4426-8746-010.3138/9781442687462(CKB)2550000000019201(OCoLC)635461374(CaPaEBR)ebrary10382314(SSID)ssj0000478049(PQKBManifestationID)11317165(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000478049(PQKBWorkID)10417258(PQKB)10484355(CaPaEBR)430735(CaBNvSL)slc00224306(MiAaPQ)EBC3268525(MiAaPQ)EBC4672545(DE-B1597)465367(OCoLC)1013946378(OCoLC)944176886(DE-B1597)9781442687462(Au-PeEL)EBL4672545(CaPaEBR)ebr11258211(OCoLC)958516386(EXLCZ)99255000000001920120160923h20082008 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrBoccaccio's naked muse eros, culture, and the mythopoeic imagination /Tobias Foster GitToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2008.©20081 online resource (382 p.)Toronto Italian studiesIncludes index.0-8020-9204-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-346) and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Translations and Editions -- Introduction -- 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. The Myth of a New Beginning: Boccaccio's Palingenetic Paradise -- 4. The Myth of Historical Foresight: Babel and Beyond -- Notes -- Works Consulted -- IndexGiovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) experimented with such a wide variety of genres that critics have tended to focus more on the differences among his works than on their underlying similarities. However, a more comprehensive examination of his corpus reveals that concealed beneath this striking diversity of subject and genre there is a coherent mythology, a virtual catalogue of innovative myths designed to more accurately reflect his cultural experience and better address the needs of his age. Exploring the most significant of these myths, Boccaccio's Naked Muse presents a writer who cast himself as the apostle of a new humanistic faith, one that would honour God by exalting his creation. Tobias Foster Gittes argues that Boccaccio did not simply reproduce Golden Age schemes in his works. Rather, he subtly altered and adapted them in order to produce a model of human beatitude more suited to his conviction that cultural achievement and human dignity are indissolubly linked. Gittes critiques common conceptions of Boccaccio's passivity, or his readiness to speak dismissively of his own work and to cast himself as a victim of vicious critics. Instead, Gittes shows that Boccaccio deliberately assumed this posture of passivity to align himself with a series of martyrs who, like him, had willingly suffered torments in the interest of cultural advancement. By venturing outside the Decameron to the Latin works, and outside the usual textual and intertextual readings of Boccaccio to more broadly cultural and anthropological material, Boccaccio's Naked Muse offers fresh insights on this hugely significant literary figure and his lifelong campaign to transform mythological traditions into a gift for all humanity.Toronto Italian studies.Eros (Greek deity) in literatureMyth in literatureCulture in literatureElectronic books.Eros (Greek deity) in literature.Myth in literature.Culture in literature.858/.109Gittes Tobias Foster899157MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456821603321Boccaccio's naked muse2008828UNINA