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Both a passionate denunciation of masculinist readings of the Decameron and a meticulous critique of previous feminist analyses, Marilyn Migiel's A Rhetoric of the Decameron offers a sophisticated re-examination of the representations of women, men, gender identity, sexuality, love, hate, morality, and truth in Boccaccio's masterpiece. The Decameron stages an ongoing, dynamic, and spirited debate about issues as urgent now as in the fourteenth century ? a debate that can only be understood if the Decameron's rhetorical objectives and strategies are completely reconceived.Addressing herself equally to those who argue for a proto-feminist Boccaccio ? a quasi-liberal champion of women's autonomy ? and to those who argue for a positivistically secure historical Boccaccio who could not possibly anticipate the concerns of the twenty-first century, Migiel challenges readers to pay attention to Boccaccio's language, to his pronouns, his passives, his echolalia, his patterns of repetition, and his figurative language. She argues that human experience, particularly in the sexual realm, is articulated differently by the Decameron's male and female narrators, and refutes the notion that the Decameron offers an undifferentiated celebration of Eros. Ultimately, Migiel contends, the stories of the Decameron suggest that as women become more empowered, the limitations on them, including the threat of violence, become more insistent.

Femme (Théologie chrétienne) dans la littérature --- Femmes dans la littérature --- Femmes dans la poésie --- Femmes dans le théâtre --- Vrouw (Christelijke theologie) in de literatuur --- Vrouwen in de literatuur --- Vrouwen in de poëzie --- Vrouwen in het toneel --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in literature --- Women in poetry --- Literary rhetorics --- Boccaccio, Giovanni --- Women in literature. --- Boccaccio, Giovanni, --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian. --- Decamerone (Boccaccio, Giovanni) --- Novella di Griselda (Boccaccio, Giovanni) --- Decameron (Boccaccio, Giovanni) --- Decamerone da un italiano all'altro (Boccaccio, Giovanni) --- Decameron di messer Giovanni Boccacci, cittadino fiorentino (Boccaccio, Giovanni)