Approaches to Teaching Boccaccio's Decameron
Editor(s): James H. McGregor
Pages: ix & 207 pp.
Published: 2000
ISBN: 9780873527620 (paperback)
ISBN: 9780873527613 (hardcover)
"The need for this volume is obvious. The Decameron has arrived. It is now widely read and studied in all kinds of undergraduate courses, and it is an ideal text to study the techniques of fiction, the ways in which texts influence or echo other texts (as well as interact with other artistic media), and the vexing questions of gender."
James V. Mirollo, author of Mannerism and Renaissance Poetry: Concept, Mode, Inner Design
"What separates the Decameron from most of the canon is that it is fun to read," says the editor in his preface to this volume. "Though its narrators sometimes weep, they laugh much more often." Boccaccio's highly teachable work is easily excerpted, and the essays in this collection describe stimulating ways to introduce these tales to undergraduates.
Table of Contents
Approaches to Teaching Boccaccio's Decameron
Part 1: Materials
James H. McGregor
Editions and Translations
Required and Recommended Reading for Undergraduates
The Instructor's Library
Reference Works
Biographies and Background Works
Critical Studies
Collection of Essays
Articles
Audiovisual and Electronic Resources
Part 2: Approaches
Introduction: The Decameron in the Classroom
Teaching the Decameron in Its Traditions
Narrative in the Decameron and the Thousand and One Nights
Bonnie D. Irwin
Non-Christian People and Spaces in the Decameron
Janet Levarie Smarr
Boccaccio's Hidden Debt to Dante
Robert Hollander
The Decameron's Secular Designs
Julia Reinhard Lupton
Patterns of Meaning in the Decameron
Michael Papio
Teaching the Decameron in a Historical Context
Steven M. Grossvogel
Reflections on the Criticism of the Decameron
Giuseppe Mazzotta
Gender and Sexuality in the Decameron
Women in the Decameron
F. Regina Psaki
Medieval Fantasies: Other Worlds and the Role of the Other in the Decameron
Marga Cottino-Jones
Anatomizing Boccaccio's Sexual Festivity
Raymond-Jean Frontain
The Influence of the Decameron
The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales
Robert W. Hanning
The Novella Tradition in Italy after Boccaccio
James H. McGregor
From the Decameron to the Heptaméron
Aldo Scaglione
The Decameron in Spain
Robert E. Bayliss
The Decameron and Italian Renaissance Comedy
Angelo Mazzocco and Elizabeth H. D. Mazzocco
Boccaccio and the Visual Arts
Early Portraits of Boccaccio: A Doorway to the Decameron
Victoria Kirkham
The Decameron on Film
Kevin J. Harty
The Decameron Web: Teaching a Classic as Hypertext at Brown University
Massimo Riva
Works Cited
Index
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