Pier Massimo Forni

Adventures in Speech

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Produktdetails

• The Middle Ages Series
• Verlag: De Gruyter
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9780812233384
• ISBN-10: 0812233387
• Artikelnr.: 50536313

Autorenporträt

Pier Massimo Forni is Professor of Italian Studies at The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Forme complesse nel Decameron.

Inhaltsangabe

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