Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature - Couverture souple

Eisner, Martin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1316619699 ISBN 13 : 9781316619698

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Giovanni Boccaccio played a pivotal role in the extraordinary emergence of the Italian literary tradition in the fourteenth century, not only as author of the Decameron, but also as scribe of Dante, Petrarch and Cavalcanti. Using a single codex written entirely in Boccaccio's hand, Martin Eisner brings together material philology and literary history to reveal the multiple ways Boccaccio authorizes this vernacular literary tradition. Each chapter offers a novel interpretation of Boccaccio as a biographer, storyteller, editor and scribe, who constructs arguments, composes narratives, compiles texts and manipulates material forms to legitimize and advance a vernacular literary canon. Situating these philological activities in the context of Boccaccio's broader reflections on poetry in the Decameron and the Genealogy of the Gentile Gods, the book produces a new portrait of Boccaccio that integrates his vernacular and Latin works, while also providing a new context for understanding his fictions.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Martin Eisner is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at Duke University, North Carolina.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1316619699
• ISBN 13: 9781316619698
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 262
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