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Marilyn Migiel - Ethical Dimension Of The Decameron - 9781442631885 - V9781442631885
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Ethical Dimension Of The Decameron

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Description for Ethical Dimension Of The Decameron Hardback. Marilyn Migiel returns to Giovanni Boccaccio's masterpiece, this time to focus on the dialogue about ethical choices that the Decameron creates with us and that we, as individuals and as groups, create with the Decameron. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.

With The Ethical Dimension of the “Decameron” Marilyn Migiel, author of A Rhetoric of the “Decameron” (winner of the MLA’s 2004 Marraro Prize), returns to Giovanni Boccaccio’s masterpiece, this time to focus on the dialogue about ethical choices that the Decameron creates with us and that we, as individuals and as groups, create with the Decameron.

Maintaining that we can examine this dialogue to gain insights into our values, our biases and our decision-making processes, Migiel offers a view of the Decameron as sticky and thorny. According to Migiel, the Decameron catches us as we move through it, obligating us ... Read more

Throughout, Migiel engages in the masterful in-depth rhetorical analyses, delivered in lively and readable prose, that are her trademark. Whether she is examining the Italian of the Decameron, translations of the Italian into English, commentaries by scholars, newspaper articles, or student essays, she asks us always to maintain an ethical engagement with the words of others.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
Toronto Italian Studies
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442631885
SKU
V9781442631885
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About Marilyn Migiel
Marilyn Migiel is a professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University.

Reviews for Ethical Dimension Of The Decameron
‘Original, concise, and singularly readable, this book comes as an attractive complement to Migiel’s now classic A Rhetoric of the Decameron…. Highly recommended.’
S. Botterill
Choice Magazine vol 53:08:2016
‘I would recommend the research of Marilyn Migiel to all academics (and non-academics) that might be interested not only in profound research into the Decameron, but also to ... Read more

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