Venturing outside the Decameron to the Latin works, and outside the usual textual and intertextual readings of Boccaccio to more broadly cultural and anthropological material, Boccaccio's Naked Muse offers fresh insights on this hugely significant literary figure.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-346) and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 858/.109
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781442687462 9780802092045
- LCCN
- PQ4293.L2
- LCCN Item number
- G58 2007eb
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- CaOONL
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- 1 electronic text (x, 369 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00224306 (OCoLC)635461374 (CaOOCEL)430735
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgments 8
- A Note on the Translations 12
- Introduction 16
- 1 Universal Myths of Origin: Boccaccio and the Golden Age Motif 37
- The Classical Golden Age Traditions 42
- Boccaccio’s Elegiac Primitivism 52
- Boccaccio’s Rationalistic Reevaluation of the Golden Age 57
- The Escape to Paradise 83
- 2 Local Myths of Origin: The Birth of the City and the Self 90
- Physical Restoration: The Fertile Loam of Tuscany 90
- Political Restoration and Miscegenation: Ex Pluribus Unum 102
- Boccaccio’s Fruitful Bastardy 134
- 3 The Myth of a New Beginning: Boccaccio’s Palingenetic Paradise 154
- Tabula Rasa and Saïtic Seed: The Effacement and Replacement of Knowledge 154
- The Restoration of Knowledge: The Poet as Pedagogical Pimp 168
- Nel Cospetto degli Uomini: The Prophylactic Peep-show of Decameron VI 194
- 4 The Myth of Historical Foresight: Babel and Beyond 223
- On the Shoulders of (Blasphemous) Giants: The Limits of Knowledge 223
- Through the Literary Looking-glass: The Textual Monument as Mirror 230
- Notes 256
- Works Consulted 342
- Index 360
- A 360
- B 361
- C 364
- D 366
- E 368
- F 369
- G 370
- H 370
- I 371
- J 372
- K 372
- L 372
- M 373
- N 374
- O 375
- P 375
- Q 377
- R 377
- S 378
- T 380
- U 381
- V 381
- W 382
- Z 382
