The Decameron
Author:   Giovanni Boccaccio ,  Wayne A. Rebhorn (University of Texas at Austin)
Publisher:   WW Norton & Co
Volume:   0
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9780393427882


Pages:   640
Publication Date:   08 December 2020
Format:   Paperback
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?The?Decameron?has had numerous English translations, most of them bowdlerized or reliant on corrupt texts. The challenge is to move gracefully between the widely varying idioms employed for different tales and Rebhorn is notably successful in handling this, avoiding both an excess of slack colloquialism and the pish-tush-forsooth faux-antique of earlier renderings. The achievement genuinely honors its original.? ?JONATHAN KEATES,?The Telegraph

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Author:   Giovanni Boccaccio ,  Wayne A. Rebhorn (University of Texas at Austin)
Publisher:   WW Norton & Co
Imprint:   WW Norton & Co
Volume:   0
Dimensions:   Width: 13.00cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.423kg
ISBN:  

9780393427882


ISBN 10:   0393427889
Pages:   640
Publication Date:   08 December 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Wayne A. Rebhorn is the Celanese Centennial Professor of English at the University of Texas, where he teaches English, Italian, and comparative literature. His translation of Boccaccio’s Decameron won the 2014 PEN Center USA’s Literary Award for Translation.

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