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Italian Renaissance Tales
Engelsk
Bogcover for Italian Renaissance Tales af , 9780198794967
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
384
ISBN-13:
9780198794967
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0198794967
Udg. Dato:
29 okt 2019
Størrelse i cm:
19,8 x 13,1 x 1,7
Oplagsdato:
29 okt 2019
Paperback 2019
Format:

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''Thus she was decapitated, and this was the end to which she was brought by her unbridled lusts.''For over two centuries after Boccaccio''s groundbreaking Decameron, the Italian novella exercised a crucial influence over European prose fiction. With thirty-nine stories by nineteen authors, many translated for the first time, this anthology presents tales from the whole genre and period. Here we meet a rich cast of humble peasants and shrewd craftsmen, frustrated wives, libidinous friars, ill-fated lovers, and vengeful nobles. These works had a considerable impact in English, and the selection includes tales that have provided sources for Chaucer, Shakespeare, Webster, Marston, Dryden, Byron and Keats.The typical novella is situated in a precise time and place and features people who either existed historically or are presumed to have done so. The subject-matter, whether ribald or sentimental, comic or tragic, often reflects the social and economic conditions of its age and thus the novella has been seen as a crucial stage in the development of fictional realism and the emergence of the novel
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
384
ISBN-13:
9780198794967
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0198794967
Udg. Dato:
29 okt 2019
Størrelse i cm:
19,8 x 13,1 x 1,7
Oplagsdato:
29 okt 2019
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