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

Publication subTitle :The World at Play in Boccaccio's "Decameron"

Publication series :Princeton Legacy Library

Author: Mazzotta Giuseppe;;;  

Publisher: Princeton University Press‎

Publication year: 2014

E-ISBN: 9781400854189

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691066776

Subject: I Literature;I06 Literature, Literature Appreciation;I1 World Literature

Keyword: 文学,世界文学

Language: ENG

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Description

Giuseppe Mazzotta provides both a powerful framework for reading the Decameron and an important contribution to medieval and contemporary debates in esthetics

Originally published in 1986.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Chapter

Acknowledgments

Bibliographic Note

Preface

Introduction

1 Plague and Play

2 The Marginality of Literature

3 The Riddle of Values

4 Allegory and the Pornographic Imagination

5 The Heart of Love

6 The Comedy of Love

7 Games of Laughter

8 The Law and Its Transgressions

9 The Virtues: Ethics and Rhetoric

Index

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