Adventures in Speech : Rhetoric and Narration in Boccaccio's Decameron / Pier Massimo Forni
1996, 1st edition. Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #426197
ISBN: 0812233387
Physical description; 155 pages. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-151) and index. Contents; Frontmatter -- Content -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. The Rhetoric of Selection and Response -- Chapter 1: Configurations of Discourse -- Chapter 2: Pleasure and Response -- Part II. The Rhetoric of Beginnings -- Chapter 3: Realism and the Needs of the Story -- Part III. Rhetoric and Imagination -- Chapter 4: The Poetics of Realization -- Chapter 5: Rhetoric and Narration in the Story of Zima -- Afterword -- Appendix: Horror of Incest and Seduction of Literature in Boccaccio's Decameron -- Notes -- Works Consulted -- Index -- Backmatter. Subjects; Boccaccio, Giovanni 1313-1375 Decameron. Boccaccio, Giovanni 1313-1375 Technique. Boccaccio, Giovanni 1313-1375 Decameron Criticism and interpretation. Boccaccio, Giovanni 1313-1375. Boccaccio, Giovanni 1313-1375 Style. To 1500. Narration (Rhetoric) History To 1500. Rhetoric, Medieval. Narration (Rhetoric). LITERARY CRITICISM. LITERARY CRITICISM Renaissance.
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