Ital 483 - Boccaccio: Decameron

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Washington University in St Louis

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The unrivaled master of late medieval Italian prose, Boccaccio is also a strikingly modern author whose works address such questions as the relationship between literature and history; God and man; storyteller and audience; gender, language, and power; literature and truth. With these and other concerns in mind, we read his masterpiece, the Decameron, a collection of 100 tales set in the Black Plague of 1348. We then contrast it to his late Corbaccio, ostensibly a misogynist novel but a text that finally resists such a flattening judgment. Readings in Italian or English; discussion in English. Prerequisite: 3 units of literature.

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3.00

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Lecture

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www.wustl.edu

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(314) 935-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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