Fabulous vernacular : Boccaccio's Filocolo and the art of medieval fiction / Victoria Kirkham.
2001
PQ4270.F53 K57 2001 (Mapit)
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Title
Fabulous vernacular : Boccaccio's Filocolo and the art of medieval fiction / Victoria Kirkham.
Author
Kirkham, Victoria.
ISBN
0472111647 (alk. paper)
9780472111640 (alk. paper)
9780472111640 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2001.
Language
English
Description
xii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number
PQ4270.F53 K57 2001
Summary
"Fabulous Vernacular: Boccaccio's Filocolo and the Art of Medieval Fiction explores how Boccaccio transforms mere "fables" into a poet's high art of "confabulation," forging his own signature devices and pushing the Italian vernacular in imaginative new directions. The first book-length study of the Filocolo published outside of Italy, it argues against the older view of the Filocole as a failed early work. It shows how the young author's "little book" is ordered by the principles of hierarchy, symmetry, and analogy to echo in design the great medieval Book of the World. With a plot keyed to the liturgy of Pentecost, his romance directly reflects his immersion in canon law. Fabulous Vernacular is the first study of Boccaccio to demonstrate these connections and to suggest how his literary practice benefited from legal training, a more positive experience than he admits in his mythic self-portrait. With a range that reaches well beyond the Filocolo, Victoria Kirkham inquires into Boccaccio's notions of literary decorum, the creative continuities that unify his corpus, and the new "poetry" that emerges from his engagement with Latin and vernacular authority."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-300) and index.
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Table of Contents
A New Flame
Signed Pieces
The Reluctant Canonist
Reckoning with Boccaccio's Questioni d'amore
The Poisoned Peacock
A Pentecostal Epic
A Brief Chronology of the Life and Works of Giovanni di Boccaccio di Certaldo.
Signed Pieces
The Reluctant Canonist
Reckoning with Boccaccio's Questioni d'amore
The Poisoned Peacock
A Pentecostal Epic
A Brief Chronology of the Life and Works of Giovanni di Boccaccio di Certaldo.