Visualizing Boccaccio: Studies on Illustrations of the Decameron, from Giotto to Pasolini

by Jill M. Ricketts

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Originally published in 1997, Visualizing Boccaccio represents an intriguing approach to the interpretation of Boccaccio's classic book of erotic tales, The Decameron. Using literary, critical, psychoanalytic, and film theories, Jill Ricketts offers a feminist critique of these stories, exposing tensions generated by sexual difference that motivate privilege and investigating the possibilities of change in power relations associated with that privilege...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521174546

ISBN13:9780521174541

Release Date:March 2011

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:226 Pages

Weight:0.76 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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