Keen and Violent Remedies : Social Satire and the Grotesque in Masuccio Salernitano's Novellino
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Renaissance and Baroque Studies and Texts
ISBN-10
0820444057
ISBN-13
9780820444055
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 23rd, 2000
Print length
192 Pages
Weight
406 grams
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16.00 x 23.70 x 1.50 cms
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Classical textsLiterary studies: generalLiterary studies: classical, early & medieval
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The Novellino of Masuccio Salernitano, long known for its gruesome scenes of violent humor and horror, is arguably the most important collection of short stories in Italian renaissance literature after the Decameron. This study, the first thorough analysis of the tales in English, explores the hidden literary, political, and cultural background of Masuccio’s mordant satire. It uncovers the Novellino’s sources, from the French fabliaux to Catalan poetry, from the Bible to Boccaccio, and examines the reflections of aristocratic fears in fifteenth-century Naples regarding the growing mendicant movement and the Turkish threat from the East. This volume closes with a new consideration of the modern theories of the grotesque and presents a convincing alternative to a Bakhtinian reading of Masuccio’s classic work.
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