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Reading by example : Valerius Maximus and the historiography of exempla
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ISBN: 9004499407 9004499423 9789004499409 9789004499423 Year: 2022 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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"Long regarded as a sycophantic producer of overblown moral platitudes, Valerius Maximus emerges from a series of studies as an independent thinker capable of challenging his readers through the material he has collected: he makes them think about real moral dilemmas and grants to non-Roman societies a remarkable equivalence to Rome. Through his silences as much as his sermons he decodes the value- and political-system of his day. Valerius is talented as a reader of others and himself was read appreciatively in the Later Empire and even more so by Christians in Medieval Europe. Contributors are John Atkinson, George Baroud, Emma Brobeck, Diederik Burgersdijk, Kyle Conrau-Lewis, Alain M. Gowing, Rebecca Langlands, Sarah Lawrence, Simon Lentzsch, Jeffrey Murray, Roman Roth, David Wardle"--


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Boccaccio and exemplary literature : ethics and mischief in the Decameron
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ISBN: 1009224344 1009224379 1009224387 1009224336 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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This is the first monograph to provide a comprehensive interpretation of the Decameron's response to classical and medieval didactic traditions. Olivia Holmes unearths the rich variety of Boccaccio's sources, ranging across Aesopic fables, narrative collections of Islamicate origin, sermon-stories and saints' lives, and compilations of historical anecdotes. Examining the Decameron's sceptical and sexually permissive contents in relation to medieval notions of narrative exemplarity, the study also considers how they intersect with current critical assertions of fiction's power to develop empathy and emotional intelligence. Holmes argues that Boccaccio provides readers with the opportunity to exercise both what the ancients called 'Ethics,' and our contemporaries call 'Theory of Mind.' This account of a vast tradition of tale collections and its provocative analysis of their workings will appeal to scholars of Italian literature and medieval studies, as well as to readers interested in evolutionary understandings of storytelling.


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Boccaccio and exemplary literature : ethics and mischief in the Decameron
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ISBN: 9781009224376 9781009224338 9781009224369 1009224387 1009224344 1009224379 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,

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This is the first monograph to provide a comprehensive interpretation of the Decameron's response to classical and medieval didactic traditions. Olivia Holmes unearths the rich variety of Boccaccio's sources, ranging across Aesopic fables, narrative collections of Islamicate origin, sermon-stories and saints' lives, and compilations of historical anecdotes. Examining the Decameron's sceptical and sexually permissive contents in relation to medieval notions of narrative exemplarity, the study also considers how they intersect with current critical assertions of fiction's power to develop empathy and emotional intelligence. Holmes argues that Boccaccio provides readers with the opportunity to exercise both what the ancients called 'Ethics,' and our contemporaries call 'Theory of Mind.' This account of a vast tradition of tale collections and its provocative analysis of their workings will appeal to scholars of Italian literature and medieval studies, as well as to readers interested in evolutionary understandings of storytelling.


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中國晚明與歐洲文學: 明末耶穌會古典型証道故事考詮
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ISBN: 9570828285 Year: 2005 Publisher: 臺北 中央研究院, 聯經出版社

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中国晚明与欧洲文学 : 明末耶穌会古典型证道故事考诠.
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ISBN: 9787108033833 Year: 2010 Publisher: 北京 生活, 读书, 新知三联书店

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Deus concionator : mundo predicado y retórica del exemplum en los Siglos de Oro
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ISBN: 9004656251 9042004657 Year: 1999 Publisher: Amsterdam ; Atlanta, GA : Brill,

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Dios persuade por medio de ejemplos. Si las Sagradas Escrituras y el mensaje de Cristo abundan en parábolas y símiles, el mundo y la historia constituyen un eterno sermón, una summa de paradigmas propuestos al hombre para su custodia y consideración. Sentido como modelo artístico para el orador evangélico, ese discurso divino de carácter ejemplar justificó el recurso de la prédica a las formas breves, y su estudio constante desde todos los ámbitos preceptivos. Al análisis de la reflexión teórica sobre el exemplum en la España de los Siglos de Oro pretende contribuir este Deus concionator. El libro aborda inicialmente el complejo problema de la terminología sobre el género y tiene escalas en cuantos aspectos ayudan a comprender las razones de su pervivencia en el sermón renacentista y barroco: desde la tópica ejemplar, que indaga la tenue frontera entre res y verba inherente al paradigma y explora su especial afinidad con los modos de persuasión retórica, a la más sistemática preceptiva sobre sus formas y funciones en el discurso áureo. Una preceptiva que testimonia el influjo de las tesis oratorias grecolatinas y no menos el de ese otro erasmismo filológico de tan fecunda huella en nuestras letras. El estudio concluye con un capítulo dedicado a los matices de la compilación de las formas breves en la época, eje de ese itinerario que nace de un Dios sentido como primer predicador y a Él conduce a partir de la observación y lectura de todo lo creado.


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Boccaccio and exemplary literature : ethics and mischief in the Decameron
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ISBN: 9781009224376 1009224387 1009224344 1009224379 9781009224338 9781009224369 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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This is the first monograph to provide a comprehensive interpretation of the Decameron's response to classical and medieval didactic traditions. Olivia Holmes unearths the rich variety of Boccaccio's sources, ranging across Aesopic fables, narrative collections of Islamicate origin, sermon-stories and saints' lives, and compilations of historical anecdotes. Examining the Decameron's sceptical and sexually permissive contents in relation to medieval notions of narrative exemplarity, the study also considers how they intersect with current critical assertions of fiction's power to develop empathy and emotional intelligence. Holmes argues that Boccaccio provides readers with the opportunity to exercise both what the ancients called 'Ethics,' and our contemporaries call 'Theory of Mind.' This account of a vast tradition of tale collections and its provocative analysis of their workings will appeal to scholars of Italian literature and medieval studies, as well as to readers interested in evolutionary understandings of storytelling.

Lessons from the past : the moral use of history in fourth-century prose.
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ISBN: 0472113275 Year: 2004 Publisher: Ann Arbor University of Michigan press

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Exemplum e letteratura : tra Medioevo e Rinascimento
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ISBN: 8815020012 9788815020017 Year: 1989 Publisher: Bologna Mulino

Exemplarisches Erzählen bei Ammianus Marcellinus : Episode, Exemplum, Anekdote
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ISBN: 3598776934 3110961814 Year: 2001 Volume: Bd. 144 Publisher: München : K.G. Saur,

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Die Abhandlung trägt einer neueren Tendenz in der Literaturwissenschaft Rechnung, Untersuchungen von Stil und dramatischem Aufbau mit den Ergebnissen historischer Forschung zu verknüpfen. Im Sinne des New Historicism wird deshalb auch danach gefragt, welche zeitgenössischen Diskurse in den Res Gestae verhandelt werden. Um sowohl das Zeittypische, als auch das Besondere der Res Gestae herauszuarbeiten, werden die Stile und Darstellungsabsichten des Tacitus und des Ammian deutlich voneinander abgegrenzt und ein Vergleich mit dem Zeitgenossen Aurelius Victor gezogen. Abschließend werden die Ergeb

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