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Article: Adventures in Speech: Rhetoric and Narration in Boccaccio's Decameron.
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 22, 1998
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Pier Massimo Forni. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. xiv + 155 pp. $29.95. ISBN: n.a.
The first word in the title of this new book, "adventures," conveys both the excitement and pleasure it will spark in its readers. Forni's project yokes classical rhetoric and contemporary literary theory - esthetic domains in which he is equally at ease - to argue notions that are as profound in their insightfulness as they are elegant in their simplicity. Adventures in Speech is a brilliant analytical mapping of the cognitive poetic processes that rule complex interrelationships in the Decameron between verba and res, sententia and eventum. It probes the ...
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