Approaches to teaching Boccaccio's Decameron

Approaches to teaching Boccaccio's Decameron / edited by James H. McGregor.

Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 1059-1133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate stude...

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Other Authors: McGregor, James H. (James Harvey), 1946-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2000.
Series:Approaches to teaching world literature.
Subjects:
Boccaccio, Giovanni, > 1313-1375. > Decamerone.
Boccaccio, Giovanni, > 1313-1375 > Study and teaching.
Table of Contents:
  • Narrative in the Decameron and the Thousand and one nights / Bonnie D. Irwin
  • Non-Christian people and spaces in the Decameron / Janet Levarie Smarr
  • Boccaccio's hidden debt to Dante / Robert Hollander
  • The Decameron's secular designs / Julia Reinhard Lupton
  • Patterns of meaning in the Decameron / Michael Papio
  • Teaching the Decameron in a historical context / Steven M. Grossvogel
  • Reflections on the criticism of the Decameron / Giuseppe Mazzotta
  • Women in the Decameron / F. Regina Psaki
  • Medieval fantasies: other worlds and the role of the other in the Decameron / Marga Cottino-Jones
  • Anatomizing Boccaccio's sexual festivity / Raymond-Jean Frontain
  • The Decameron and the Canterbury tales / Robert W. Hanning
  • The novella tradition in Italy after Boccaccio / James H. McGregor
  • From the Decameron to the Heptaméron / Aldo Scaglione
  • The Decameron in Spain / Robert E. Bayliss
  • The Decameron and Italian Renaissance comedy / Angelo Mazzocco and Elizabeth H.D. Mazzocco.
  • Early portraits of Boccaccio: a doorway to the Decameron / Victoria Kirkham
  • The Decameron on film / Kevin J. Harty
  • The Decameron web: teaching a classic as hypertext at Brown University / Massimo Riva.

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