Approaches to Teaching Boccaccio's Decameron

by McGregor, James H.

• ISBN13: 9780873527620
• ISBN10: 0873527623
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Modern Language Assn of Amer

Table of Contents

Preface to the Series	vii
Preface to the Volume	viii
Part One: Materials
James H. McGregor
Editions and Translations	3	(1)
Required and Recommended Reading for Undergraduates	4	(1)
The Instructor's Library	4	(6)
Reference Works	4	(1)
Biographies and Background Works	5	(3)
Critical Studies	8	(1)
Collections of Essays	9	(1)
Articles	9	(1)
Audiovisual and Electronic Resources	10	(5)
Part Two: Approaches
Introduction: The Decameron in the Classroom	15	(6)
Teaching the Decameron in Its Traditions
Narrative in the Decameron and the Thousand and One Nights	21	(10)
Bonnie D. Irwin
Non-Christian People and Spaces in the Decameron	31	(8)
Janet Levarie Smarr
Boccaccio's Hidden Debt to Dante	39	(5)
Robert Hollander
The Decameron's Secular Designs	44	(7)
Julia Reinhard Lupton
Patterns of Meaning in the Decameron	51	(12)
Michael Papio
Teaching the Decameron in a Historical Context	63	(7)
Steven M. Grossvogel
Reflections on the Criticism of the Decameron	70	(9)
Giuseppe Mazzotta
Gender and Sexuality in the Decameron
Women in the Decameron	79	(8)
F. Regina Psaki
Medieval Fantasies: Other Worlds and the Role of the Other in the Decameron	87	(8)
Marga Cottino-Jones
Anatomizing Boccaccio's Sexual Festivity	95	(8)
Raymond-Jean Frontain
The Influence of the Decameron
The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales	103	(16)
Robert W. Hanning
The Novella Tradition in Italy after Boccaccio	119	(8)
James H. McGregor
From the Decameron to the Heptameron	127	(7)
Aldo Scaglione
The Decameron in Spain	134	(8)
Robert E. Bayliss
The Decameron and Italian Renaissance Comedy	142	(7)
Angelo Mazzocco
Elizabeth H. D. Mazzocco
Boccaccio and the Visual Arts
Early Portraits of Boccaccio: A Doorway to the Decameron	149	(15)
Victoria Kirkham
The Decameron on Film	164	(8)
Kevin J. Harty
The Decameron Web: Teaching a Classic as Hypertext at Brown University	172	(11)
Massimo Riva
Notes on Contributors	183	(3)
Survey Participants	186	(1)
Works Cited	187	(16)
Index	203