The Decameron Sixth Day in Perspective Lummus Hardback 9781487508715

The Decameron Sixth Day in Perspective\nby David Lummus\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: David Lummus\nTitle: The Decameron Sixth Day in Perspective\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press\nPublication year: 2021\nISBN-13: 9781487508715\nISBN-10: 1487508719\nRRP: \u00A352.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nThe Sixth Day of Giovanni Boccaccio\u2019s Decameron marks a new beginning. Its first story is the structural centre of the one hundred tales and signals the start of the day\u2019s reflection on the power of the word as the fundamental building block of human communication. This collection gathers together readings of each of the ten stories in Day Six of the Decameron the shortest of the entire work. F.