Storytelling as Plague Prevention in Medieval and Early Modern Italy: The Decameron Tradition (Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture) - Image 1

£149.75

Routledge Storytelling as Plague Prevention in Medieval and Early Modern Italy: The Decameron Tradition (Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture)

Name: Storytelling as Plague Prevention in Medieval and Early Modern Italy: The Decameron Tradition (Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture)
Brand: Routledge
Price: 149.75 GBP
Availability: InStock

Literary Theory & Movements

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£150 today · previous high £150 · all-time low £97

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 632 days • 632 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 632 days • 5 price ranges

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common range: £118-129 (251 days, 39.7%)

Price range: £97 - £150

Price levels: 5 price ranges over 632 days

Description

Through close readings of five Italian collections of novellas written over a 500-year period, Martin Marafioti explores the literary tradition of storytelling, and particularly its efficacy as a healing tool following traumatic visitations from the plague. In this study, Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron provides the framework for later authors. Although Boccaccio was not the first writer to deal with pestilence or epidemics in a literary work, he was the first to unite the topos of a life-threatening context with a public health disaster like the Black Death, and certainly the first author to propose storytelling as a means of prophylaxis in times of plague. Marafioti goes on to analyze Franco Sacchetti's Trecento Novelle, Giovanni Sercambi's Novelliere, Celio Malespini's Duecento Novelle, and Francesco Argelati's Decamerone, following in its longue-durée the ups and down, structurally and thematically, of the realistic novella as a genre. About the Author Martin Marafioti is assistant professor of Italian at Pace University, USA.

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1409406415
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Literary Theory & Movements
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 28 June 2016
Listed Since: 23 January 2016

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge Storytelling as Plague Prevention in Medieval and Early Modern Italy: The Decameron Tradition (Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture)

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Boccaccio`s "Decameron" – Rewriting the Christian Middle Ages and the Lyric Tradition: Rewriting the Christian Middle Ages and the Lyric Tradition ... (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies)

The Cambridge Companion to Boccaccio (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

The Decameron Eighth Day in Perspective: 8 (Toronto Italian Studies)

The Decameron Sixth Day in Perspective (Toronto Italian Studies)

The Decameron: A Critical Lexicon (Lessico Critico Decameroniano): Volume 540 (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies)

Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature: Dante, Petrarch, Cavalcanti, and the Authority of the Vernacular: Series Number 87 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Series Number 87)

Boccaccio's Florence: Politics and People in His Life and Work (Toronto Italian Studies)

Chaucer, Boccaccio, and the Debate of Love: A Comparative Study of ^IThe Decameron^R and ^IThe Canterbury Tales^R

The English Boccaccio: A History in Books (Toronto Italian Studies)

The World at Play in Boccaccio`s Decameron: 381 (Princeton Legacy Library)

Boccaccio the Philosopher: An Epistemology of the Decameron (The New Middle Ages)

The World at Play in Boccaccio's "Decameron" (Princeton Legacy Library): 381

Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Stories for an Uncertain World: Agency in the ^IDecameron^R and the ^ICanterbury Tales^R (Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture)

Boccaccio – A Critical Guide to the Complete Works

Marguerite de Navarre: A Critical Companion: 48 (Gallica)

The Ethical Dimension of the 'Decameron' (Toronto Italian Studies)

Visual Translation: Illuminated Manuscripts and the First French Humanists (Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies)

Boccaccio in England: From Chaucer to Tennyson (Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English Literary Criticism)

Les Modèles Latins Des «Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles»: Des Textes de Poggio Bracciolini, Nicolas de Clamanges, Albrecht Von Eyb Et Francesco Petrarca Et Leur Adaptation En Langue Vernaculaire Française

Boccaccio and the Book: Production and Reading in Italy 1340-1520: 19 (Italian Perspectives)

Jacopo Caviceo's Peregrino: Annotated English Edition and Translation (Toronto Italian Studies)

Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe: 11 (Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)

Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: 1 (Routledge Library Editions: Chaucer)

"Gelehrte Liebesnöte" – Lateinischer Petrarkismus der Frühen Neuzeit: Lateinischer Petrarkismus Der Frühen Neuzeit: 246 (Fruhe Neuzeit, 246)