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Book The Patient Griselda Myth

Download or read book The Patient Griselda Myth written by Madeline Rüegg and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 797 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 14th until the 19th century the last novella of Boccaccio’s Decameron, also known as the Griselda story, has been translated and adapted countless times in many European languages. This story’s success can be explained by considering it a myth and analysing how this myth engages with contemporary discourses, such as the definition of the ideal wife, the querelle des femmes, the socio-political consequences of social exogamy, and tyranny.

Book Per la Gloria D adorarvi  from the Opera Griselda

Download or read book Per la Gloria D adorarvi from the Opera Griselda written by Giovanni Battista Bononcini and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-03 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giovanni Battista Bononcini - Per la gloria d'adorarvi, From the opera "Griselda", For Voice and Piano, Original key and transposed versions for medium, high and low voices (D Major - original key, G Major, F Major, Eb Major, C Major).

Book The Italian Novella

Download or read book The Italian Novella written by Gloria Allaire and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novella was an important medieval and Renaissance prose narrative form that developed out of exempla and didactic literature and contributed to modern narrative forms. This is the first collection of essays dedicated to comprehensive scholarship on the Italian novella. The essays range from work on the Decameron , the epitome of the genre, to studies of sixteenth century authors who often utilized transgressive or sexual themes in their novellas.

Book Actos Desafiantes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Diana Raznovich
  • Publisher : Bucknell University Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780838754795
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Actos Desafiantes written by Diana Raznovich and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bilingual collection of four of Diana Raznovich's plays, Disconcerted, Inner Gardens, MaTrix Inc, and Rear Entry amply demonstrates the role of humor in dealing with a broad range of issues: relationships, sexuality, stereotypes, censorship, and the consumer society in which emotions are bought and sold.

Book The Good Wife s Guide  Le M  nagier de Paris

Download or read book The Good Wife s Guide Le M nagier de Paris written by and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the closing years of the fourteenth century, an anonymous French writer compiled a book addressed to a fifteen-year-old bride, narrated in the voice of her husband, a wealthy, aging Parisian. The book was designed to teach this young wife the moral attributes, duties, and conduct befitting a woman of her station in society, in the almost certain event of her widowhood and subsequent remarriage. The work also provides a rich assembly of practical materials for the wife's use and for her household, including treatises on gardening and shopping, tips on choosing servants, directions on the medical care of horses and the training of hawks, plus menus for elaborate feasts, and more than 380 recipes. The Good Wife's Guide is the first complete modern English translation of this important medieval text also known as Le Ménagier de Paris (the Parisian household book), a work long recognized for its unique insights into the domestic life of the bourgeoisie during the later Middle Ages. The Good Wife's Guide, expertly rendered into modern English by Gina L. Greco and Christine M. Rose, is accompanied by an informative critical introduction setting the work in its proper medieval context as a conduct manual. This edition presents the book in its entirety, as it must have existed for its earliest readers. The Guide is now a treasure for the classroom, appealing to anyone studying medieval literature or history or considering the complex lives of medieval women. It illuminates the milieu and composition process of medieval authors and will in turn fascinate cooking or horticulture enthusiasts. The work illustrates how a (perhaps fictional) Parisian householder of the late fourteenth century might well have trained his wife so that her behavior could reflect honorably on him and enhance his reputation.

Book Dramma Per Musica

    Book Details:
  • Author : Reinhard Strohm
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 1997-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300064544
  • Pages : 350 pages

Download or read book Dramma Per Musica written by Reinhard Strohm and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Dramma per musica', the most usual term for Italian serious opera from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, was a modern, enlightened form of theater that presented a unified, artistically designed, dramatic enactment of human stories, expressed by the voice and underscored by the orchestra. This book illustrates the diversity of this baroque art form and explains how it has given us opera as we know it.

Book Originals and Analogues of Some of Chaucer s Canterbury Tales

Download or read book Originals and Analogues of Some of Chaucer s Canterbury Tales written by Frederick James Furnivall and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Originals and analogues of some of Chaucer s Canterbury tales  ed  by F J  Furnivall  E  Brock  and W A  Clouston

Download or read book Originals and analogues of some of Chaucer s Canterbury tales ed by F J Furnivall E Brock and W A Clouston written by Frederick James Furnivall and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 4 of set : Sections numbered 16-19.

Book Originals and Analogues of Some of Chaucer s Canterbury Tales

Download or read book Originals and Analogues of Some of Chaucer s Canterbury Tales written by W. A. Clouston and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Writers Reading Writers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Hollander
  • Publisher : University of Delaware Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780874139761
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Writers Reading Writers written by Robert Hollander and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of intertextual studies on medieval and early modern literature in honor of Robert Hollander by some of his former students. Writers are always also readers, responding to texts that have provoked their thought. The contributors to this volume all participate in its overarching theme: writers reading and responding to the work of other writers. As Hollander's work has focused especially on Dante and Boccaccio, many of the essays treat one of these writers, either as reading or as read by others. Other essays trace intertextual influences in Langland, Shakespeare, or post-Enlightenment writers faced with the loss of Dante's meaningful cosmos.

Book The Decameron

    Book Details:
  • Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 2000-01-01
  • ISBN : 0486414329
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book The Decameron written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the English and Italian translations of the fourteenth-century novel "The Decameron", which is comprised of one hundred tales told by ten young people who have retreated to the countryside to escape the plague.

Book Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed Before 1800

Download or read book Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed Before 1800 written by Library of Congress. Music Division and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Theatrical Inquisitor  Or  Monthly Mirror

Download or read book The Theatrical Inquisitor Or Monthly Mirror written by and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Decameron Original Italian Text by Giovanni Boccaccio   Delphi Classics  Illustrated

Download or read book The Decameron Original Italian Text by Giovanni Boccaccio Delphi Classics Illustrated written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2017-07-17 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Decameron Original Italian Text by Giovanni Boccaccio - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Collected Works of Giovanni Boccaccio’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Boccaccio includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘The Decameron Original Italian Text by Giovanni Boccaccio - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Boccaccio’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles

Book Short Fiction by Spanish American Women

Download or read book Short Fiction by Spanish American Women written by Evelyn Fishburn and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a grouping of Spanish-American short stories written by women, emphasizing their differences as much as their similarities. Bombal's La historia de Maria Griselda delves into the family tensions found in a country house in southern Chile. Somers' mordant, black humour is present in El derrumbiento, and Leccion de cocina is a humorous but pessimistic account of the profound changes that marriage demands from the Mexican middle-class woman.

Book A Sociable Moment

    Book Details:
  • Author : Colleen Reardon
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2016-05-02
  • ISBN : 0190496312
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book A Sociable Moment written by Colleen Reardon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After their military defeat by the Florentines in the mid-sixteenth century, the citizens of Siena turned from politics to celebratory, social occasions to express their civic identity and show their capacity for collective action. In the first major work of its kind, Colleen Reardon opens a window on the ways in which the Sienese absorbed the new genre of opera into their own festive apparatus and challenges the prevailing view that operatic productions in the city were merely an extension of Medici power to the provinces. It was, rather, members of the expatriate Chigi family who exploited the festive impulse of their countrymen, coordinating operatic performances with their triumphant visits home by activating ties of friendship and family as well as connections to Sienese institutions, most notably the Assicurate, possibly the first all-female academy in Italy. If the Chigi proved successful at inserting opera into larger patterns of sociability that conveyed the very essence of what it meant to be Sienese (senesità), their successor, the flamboyant playwright and librettist Girolamo Gigli, struggled in his attempts to transform operatic performances into professional enterprises. Fluidly written and richly embellished with anecdotes from historical chronicles, A Sociable Moment offers insight into the Sienese experience with opera during the genre's rapid expansion throughout the Italian peninsula during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

Book Prodesse et delectare

Download or read book Prodesse et delectare written by Norbert Kössinger and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Horatian formula prodesse et delectare was extremely influential in the production of texts across various languages and genres. While indeed didactic elements can be attested to in almost any medieval text, and while medieval literature displays a range of possibilities to teach and instruct, the scope of the present volume is more closely focused on explicitly didactic literature. This volume combines contributions that analyse didactic literature in high medieval Europe from different vantage points. They open new perspectives on education as a working principle or legitimizing strategy in the heterogeneous forms of writing intended to convey knowledge. This broad thematic, linguistic and geographical scope enables us to view didactic literature as the universal phenomenon it was and prompts us to understand its influence on many aspects of society in high medieval Europe and beyond. While the contributions explore case studies predominantly from this period of transition and the expansion of the categories of knowledge, they also trace some of these developments into the later Middle Ages to spotlight the lasting influence of high medieval teaching and learning in literature. The way medieval writers combine ‘the pleasant’ with ‘the useful’ is this book’s main question.