Adventures in Speech

by P.M. Forni

Book Overview

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1996

The Decameron is a narrative account of a situation in which narration takes place-a collection of one hundred stories set within a larger story. As a group of young men and women fleeing the plague trade stories to pass the time of crisis, storytelling occurs in a social context that allows for comment upon the tales by the tellers themselves, in a setting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812233387
• ISBN13: 9780812233384
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.6"