The Writer as Liar (Routledge Library Editions: The Medieval World) - Hardcover

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Almansi, Guido

 
9780367207311: The Writer as Liar (Routledge Library Editions: The Medieval World)
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ISBN 10: 0367207311 ISBN 13: 9780367207311
Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

Originally published in 1975, The Writer as Liar examines the literary game of falsehood as it is portrayed in the Decameron. The book examines how Boccaccio’s collection of tales has a ‘frame’ story, its own built-in key to the art of story-telling, its internal logic of truth and falsehood, as well as its moments of self-parody, pure narrative intrigue and sophisticated sexual symbolism. The book formulates the argument that Boccaccio’s story telling is seen as an artfully malicious operation, depending for its success not on some abstract concept of narrative originality or the accurate depiction of human psychology, but on the combinative assemblage of narrative blocks, which are manipulated by a craftsman who must lie and cheat with raw material in order to produce a living work – therefore depicting the artist as a liar.

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Guido Almansi

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0367207311
ISBN 13 
9780367207311
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
176

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Publisher: Routledge and K. Paul, 1975
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