%0 Book
%A Corradina Caporello-Szkyman
%D 1990
%C New York, United States of America
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%T The Boccaccian Novella
%B The Creation and Waning of a Genre
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1078689
%X 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.
%G English