LEADER 04282nam 2200709 450 001 9910456821603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-8746-0 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442687462 035 $a(CKB)2550000000019201 035 $a(OCoLC)635461374 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10382314 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000478049 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11317165 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000478049 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10417258 035 $a(PQKB)10484355 035 $a(CaPaEBR)430735 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00224306 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3268525 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672545 035 $a(DE-B1597)465367 035 $a(OCoLC)1013946378 035 $a(OCoLC)944176886 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442687462 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672545 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11258211 035 $a(OCoLC)958516386 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000019201 100 $a20160923h20082008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBoccaccio's naked muse $eeros, culture, and the mythopoeic imagination /$fTobias Foster Git 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2008. 210 4$dİ2008 215 $a1 online resource (382 p.) 225 1 $aToronto Italian studies 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8020-9204-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [329]-346) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tA Note on the Translations and Editions -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Universal Myths of Origin: Boccaccio and the Golden Age Motif -- $t2. Local Myths of Origin: The Birth of the City and the Self -- $t3. The Myth of a New Beginning: Boccaccio's Palingenetic Paradise -- $t4. The Myth of Historical Foresight: Babel and Beyond -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Consulted -- $tIndex 330 $aGiovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) experimented with such a wide variety of genres that critics have tended to focus more on the differences among his works than on their underlying similarities. However, a more comprehensive examination of his corpus reveals that concealed beneath this striking diversity of subject and genre there is a coherent mythology, a virtual catalogue of innovative myths designed to more accurately reflect his cultural experience and better address the needs of his age. Exploring the most significant of these myths, Boccaccio's Naked Muse presents a writer who cast himself as the apostle of a new humanistic faith, one that would honour God by exalting his creation. Tobias Foster Gittes argues that Boccaccio did not simply reproduce Golden Age schemes in his works. Rather, he subtly altered and adapted them in order to produce a model of human beatitude more suited to his conviction that cultural achievement and human dignity are indissolubly linked. Gittes critiques common conceptions of Boccaccio's passivity, or his readiness to speak dismissively of his own work and to cast himself as a victim of vicious critics. Instead, Gittes shows that Boccaccio deliberately assumed this posture of passivity to align himself with a series of martyrs who, like him, had willingly suffered torments in the interest of cultural advancement. By venturing outside the Decameron to the Latin works, and outside the usual textual and intertextual readings of Boccaccio to more broadly cultural and anthropological material, Boccaccio's Naked Muse offers fresh insights on this hugely significant literary figure and his lifelong campaign to transform mythological traditions into a gift for all humanity. 410 0$aToronto Italian studies. 606 $aEros (Greek deity) in literature 606 $aMyth in literature 606 $aCulture in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEros (Greek deity) in literature. 615 0$aMyth in literature. 615 0$aCulture in literature. 676 $a858/.109 700 $aGittes$b Tobias Foster$0899157 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456821603321 996 $aBoccaccio's naked muse$92008828 997 $aUNINA