The Boccaccian Novella
The Creation and Waning of a Genre
©1990
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170 Pages
Series:
Studies in Italian Culture , Volume 2
Summary
Through a close scrutiny of Boccaccio's Decameron and the works of his epigones, this book presents a synthesis of the medieval and Renaissance novella and proposes a model against which subsequent works of short fiction can be tested. This analysis furthermore establishes that, with the Decameron, Boccaccio created a new genre in short narrative. It shows that throughout his work, he suggests the literary tenets of a narrative archetype and conceptualizes it in such a functional format that it could be used and imitated for centuries by his numerous followers.
Details
- Pages
- 170
- Publication Year
- 1990
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9780820411347
- Language
- English
- Published
- New York, Bern, Frankfurt/M., Paris, 1990. 170 pp.
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