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



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Autore: Gittes Tobias Foster Visualizza persona
Titolo: Boccaccio's naked muse : eros, culture, and the mythopoeic imagination / / Tobias Foster Git Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2008
©2008
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (382 p.)
Disciplina: 858/.109
Soggetto topico: Eros (Greek deity) in literature
Myth in literature
Culture in literature
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Includes index.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-346) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Giovanni 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Boccaccio's naked muse  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4426-8746-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910456821603321
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Serie: Toronto Italian studies.