عنوان

Adventures in speech :

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0812233387 (alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

9780812233384 (alk. paper)

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b523539

Title Proper

Adventures in speech :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

rhetoric and narration in Boccaccio's Decameron /

First Statement of Responsibility

Pier Massimo Forni.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Philadelphia :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Pennsylvania Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c1996.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiv, 155 p. ;

Dimensions

24 cm.

Series Title

Middle Ages series

Text of Note

Parts of this work were previously published in Italian.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-151) and index.

Text of Note

Ch. 1. Configurations of Discourse -- Ch. 2. Pleasure and Response -- Ch. 3. Realism and the Needs of the Story -- Ch. 4. The Poetics of Realization -- Ch. 5. Rhetoric and Narration in the Story of Zima -- Appendix: Horror of Incest and Seduction of Literature in Boccaccio's Decameron.

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Text of Note

The Decameron is a narrative account of a situation in which narration takes place - a collection of one hundred stories set within a larger story. As a group of young men and women fleeing the plague trade stories to pass the time of crisis, storytelling occurs in a social context that allows for comment upon the tales by the tellers themselves, in a setting that elicits one story in return for another. In his close and original analysis, Pier Massimo Forni uses the notion of rhetoric as a guiding principle for a critical assessment of the Decameron. He explores the discursive tools with which the narrators connect the contents of their stories to their audience's environment, and goes on to argue that the book is significantly marked by Boccaccio's habit of exploring the narrative potential of rhetorical forms. Puzzling narrative segments and stories make new sense once they are understood to dramatize or enact metaphors and other figures of speech.

Title

Adventures in speech.

Boccaccio, Giovanni,1313-1375-- Technique.

Boccaccio, Giovanni,1313-1375., Decamerone.

Narration (Rhetoric)-- History-- To 1500.

Rhetoric, Medieval.

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Book number

Forni, Pier Massimo.

Date of Transaction

20140218102535.0

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[Book]

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