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Bardin, Gay Hsiao-Lin.

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The plague of language: A reading of Boccaccio's "Decameron" (Giovanni Boccaccio, Italy).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The plague of language: A reading of Boccaccio's "Decameron" (Giovanni Boccaccio, Italy)./
Author:	Bardin, Gay Hsiao-Lin.
Description:	239 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-01, Section: A, page: 0155.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-01A.
Subject:	Literature, Romance. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3117667
ISBN:	0496650912

The plague of language: A reading of Boccaccio's "Decameron" (Giovanni Boccaccio, Italy).
Bardin, Gay Hsiao-Lin.

The plague of language: A reading of Boccaccio's "Decameron" (Giovanni Boccaccio, Italy). - 239 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-01, Section: A, page: 0155.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2003.

In Boccaccio's Decameron, an unsettling split between the verbal universe of words and language and the physical one of facts and things threatens the logical structure of language. I term this disjuncture the "Plague of Language". This project examines the figurative Plague's repercussions on the Decameron's formal, narrative, and ideological structures. The metaphoric disease is as contagious as the medical one, with symptoms far more insidious and long-lasting. The linguistic split determines the progressive dissolution of the narrators' ideal microcosm, revealing its fundamental instability. Root of the narrators' conflict with their Author, the crisis of language governs the dynamic relationships between Author, the ten narrators of the Brigata, and the tales they tell. It is the basis of Boccaccio's distinct position within the literary tradition, and the crux of his contest with Dante, firm believer in the direct correspondence between words and things.

ISBN: 0496650912Subjects--Topical Terms:

1019014
Literature, Romance.

The plague of language: A reading of Boccaccio's "Decameron" (Giovanni Boccaccio, Italy).
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520 $a In Boccaccio's Decameron, an unsettling split between the verbal universe of words and language and the physical one of facts and things threatens the logical structure of language. I term this disjuncture the "Plague of Language". This project examines the figurative Plague's repercussions on the Decameron's formal, narrative, and ideological structures. The metaphoric disease is as contagious as the medical one, with symptoms far more insidious and long-lasting. The linguistic split determines the progressive dissolution of the narrators' ideal microcosm, revealing its fundamental instability. Root of the narrators' conflict with their Author, the crisis of language governs the dynamic relationships between Author, the ten narrators of the Brigata, and the tales they tell. It is the basis of Boccaccio's distinct position within the literary tradition, and the crux of his contest with Dante, firm believer in the direct correspondence between words and things.
520 $a The gap between the two spheres, verbal and experiential, shows most clearly in language's truth or falsity, its correspondence or non-correspondence to reality. Paying particular attention to the veracity of language in a philological "close reading" of the Decameron, I have discovered a series of hitherto unobserved symmetries in the tales' arrangement. Critical analysis from the perspective of the truthfulness of language bares the Decameron 's internal structures, from the composition of each Day to its logical progression. The tensions among the work's narratological levels become evident, conflicts between the Author's persona, the Brigata , and their novelle.
520 $a Boccaccio lives the crisis of the Medieval outlook. The Scholastic logic that once governed the vision of the world is tottering. As he questions the great categories of Medieval thought, Boccaccio contests the authority of the cultural and literary models he has inherited. He defines his place in the literary tradition particularly by contrast to Dante, the greatest poet of the previous generation. Through the metaphor of the Plague of Language, Boccaccio expresses his idea of literature's changed function as hermeneutic instrument for interpreting the world. His struggle with Dante is emblematic of the battle between two clashing world-views.
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