Boccaccio's naked muse : eros, culture, and the mythopoeic imagination / / Tobias Foster Git
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| Autore: |
Gittes Tobias Foster
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| Titolo: |
Boccaccio's naked muse : eros, culture, and the mythopoeic imagination / / Tobias Foster Git
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| 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: | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Electronic books. | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Boccaccio's naked muse |
| ISBN: | 1-4426-9143-3 |
| 1-4426-8746-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910781123603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Toronto Italian studies.