Law and mimesis in Boccaccio's Decameron : realism on trial /
Justin Steinberg.
Bok Engelsk 2023
Utgitt | Cambridge University Press , 2023
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Opplysninger | The novella on trial -- The artist and the police -- The widow and the sovereign -- Torture and the sense of an ending -- Another way of possessing -- The author on trial.. - "Justin Steinberg's field-defining work on Boccaccio's Decameron shows how historical changes in the prosecution of crime profoundly influenced literary realism. Arguing that the Decameron's trials respond to a crisis in verisimilitude, the book engages scholars and students of medieval and early modern studies, literary theory and legal history"--
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Emner | Boccaccio, Giovanni, , 1313-1375 - Knowledge - Law.
Law and literature - History - Italy Law in literature. |
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ISBN | 1-009-08068-7
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