TY  - BOOK
AU  - Corradina Caporello-Szkyman
PY  - 1990
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - The Boccaccian Novella
T2  - The Creation and Waning of a Genre
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1078689
N2  - 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.
LA  - English
ER  -