Heliotropia 1.1 (2003)

American Boccaccio Bibliography for 1996
(through November, 1996)
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BOOKS:

Chance, Jane. The Mythographic Chaucer: The Fabulation of Sexual Politics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995. xxxix, 378 pp.

Forni, Pier Massimo. Adventures in Speech: Rhetoric and Narration in Boccaccio's "Decameron". Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. xiv, 155 pp.

Scanlon, Larry. Narrative, Authority, and Power: The Medieval Exemplum and the Chaucerian Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xii, 378 pp.

CRITICAL STUDIES (ARTICLES):

Alfie, Fabian. "Poetics Enacted: A Comparison of the Novellas of Guido Cavalcanti and Cecco Angiolieri in Boccaccio's Decameron," Studi sul Boccaccio 23 (1995): 171-96.

Brownlee, Kevin. "Christine de Pizan's Canonical Authors: The Special Case of Boccaccio," Comparative Literature Studies 32.2 (1995): 244-61.

Budra, Paul. "Exemplify my Frailty: Representing English Women in De Casibus Tragedy," Philological Quarterly 74.4 (Fall, 1995): 359-72.

Callmann, Ellen. "Subjects from Boccaccio in Italian Painting, 1375-1525," Studi sul Boccaccio 23 (1995): 19-78 (+ 15 illus.).

Clark-Evans, Christine. "Boccaccio's 'narratio interrupta': The Cornice and the First Tale of Day VI," Canadian Journal of Italian Studies 18, No. 51 (1995): 136-45.

Ferreri, Rosario. "La quarta novella del Decameron," Rivista di Studi Italiani 14.1 (giugno, 1996): 25-35.

Freccero, Carla. "From Amazon to Court Lady: Generic Hybridization in Boccaccio's Teseida," Comparative Literature Studies 32.2 (1995): 226-43.

Hardman, Phillipa. "Chaucer's Articulation of the Narrative in Troilus: The Manuscript Evidence," Chaucer Review 30.2 (1995): 111-33.

Heyer-Caput, Margherita. "Le Questioni d'amore del Filocolo, tirocinio letterario di Giovanni Boccaccio," in Studies in Honor of Dante Della Terza, edited by Marilina Cirillo-Falzarano and Mei-Mei Akwai Ellerman (Cambridge, Mass.: Office of the University Publisher, Harvard University, 1996): pp. 65-88.

Hollander, Robert, and Courtney Cahill. "Day Ten of the Decameron: The Myth of Order," Studi sul Boccaccio 23 (1995): 113-70.

Levenstein, Jessica. "Out of Bounds: Passion and the Plague in Boccaccio's Decameron," Italica 73.3 (Autumn, 1996): 313-35.

Scaglione Aldo D. "Boccaccio, Giovanni," in Dictionary of Italian Literature, Revised, Expanded Edition, edited by Peter Bondanella and Julian Conaway Bondanella with Jody Robin Shiffman (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996): pp. 60-64.

Spillenger, Paul. "The Metamorphosis of Musorno: A Note on Chaucer's Translation of Filostrato I, 54 in Troilus I, 526-32," Chaucer Review 29.4 (1995): 348-51.

Sprung, Andrew. "If it youre wille be: Coercion and Compliance in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale," Exemplaria 7.2 (Fall, 1995): 345-69.

Van Dyke, Carolynn. "The Clerk's and Franklin's Subjected Subjects," Studies in the Age of Chaucer 17 (1995): 45-68.

Wallace, David. "Boccaccio, Giovanni," in The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, edited by Michael Groden and Martin Kreiswirth (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994): pp. 101-02.

Winnick, R. H. "Luke 12 and Chaucer's Shipman's Tale," Chaucer Review 30.2 (1995): 164-90.

DISSERTATIONS:

Alfie, Fabian Robert. "'Se io potesse con la lingua dire': Tradition and Innovation in Cecco Angiolieri's Poetry," in Dissertation Abstracts International 56, 5 (November, 1995): p. 1766A. (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1995; 202 p.)

Arnold, Luisella Bovio. "Aspetti narrativi nella Genealogia Deorum Gentilium di Giovanni Boccaccio," in Dissertation Abstracts International 55, 11 (May, 1995): 3505A. (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1994; 259 p.)

Baraff, Barbara Ellen. "Theatricality in the Decameron," in Dissertation Abstracts International 56, 5 (November, 1995): p. 1807A. (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1994; 187 p.)

Del Santo, Jean Catherine. "Sexual Politics, Alterity and the Search for Signifiers in Boccaccio's Decameron," in Dissertation Abstracts International 55, 8 (February, 1995): p. 2416A. (Ph.D., Indiana University, 1994; 239 p.)

Farsi, Fabio. "La Figura Femminile nella Novella del Trecento Toscano: Boccaccio, Sacchetti, Ser Giovanni e Sercambi," in Dissertation Abstracts International 56, 3 (September, 1995): p. 957A. (Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1995; 227 p.)

Gambera, Disa. "Disarming Women: Gender and Poetic Authority from the Thebaid to the Knight's Tale, in Dissertation Abstracts International 55, 11 (May, 1995): p. 3505A (Ph.D., Cornell University, 1995; 287 p.)

Gates, Laura Doyle. "Soubz umbrage de passetemps: The Functioning of Women's Storytelling in the Evangiles des Quenouilles, the Comptes amoureux of Jeanne Flore and the Heptameron of Marguerite de Navarre," in Dissertation Abstracts International 56, 3 (September, 1995): p. 958A. (Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1995; 233 p.)

Guidotti, Richard Williams. "Deceivers, Credulous Skeptics, and Believers: Historical, Fictional and Hermetic Identity Development of Authors and Characters in Boncompagno da Signa, Salimbene da Parma, Dante and Boccaccio," in Dissertation Abstracts International 56, 9 (March, 1996): 3574A. (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1995; 213 p.)

Hagedorn, Suzanne Christine. "Abandoned Women: Studies of an Ovidian Theme in the Works of Dante, Boccaccio, and Chaucer," in Dissertation Abstracts International 56, 7 (January, 1996): p. 2671A. (Ph.D., Cornell University, 1995; 239 p.)

Milliken, Roberta Lee. "Neither 'Clere Laude' nor 'Sklaundre': Chaucer's Translation of Criseyde, and, Sensual and Holy Locks: A Study of Hair in Women's Hagiography," in Dissertation Abstracts International 56, 7 (January, 1996): p. 2672A. (Ph.D., University of Toledo, 1995; 51 p.)

Palma, Giuseppina. "In the Arms of Hypnos: The Metaphor of Sleep in Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Literature," in Dissertation Abstracts International 56, 3 (September, 1995): 920A. (Ph.D., Yale University, 1994; 218 p.)

Park, Yoon-Hee. "Rewriting Woman Evil? Antifeminism and Its Hermeneutic Problems in Four Criseida Stories," Dissertation Abstracts International 56, 5 (November, 1995): 1796A. (Ph.D., University of North Texas, 1995; 257 p.)

Thompson, Phyllis Anina Nitze. "The Triumph of Poverty over Fortune: Illuminations from Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium," in Dissertation Abstracts International 56, 6 (December, 1995): p. 2021A. (Ph.D., Boston University, 1994; 484 p.)

BOOK REVIEWS:

Boccaccio, Giovanni. Diana's Hunt: Caccia di Diana. Boccaccio's First Fiction, edited and translated by Anthony K. Cassell and Victoria Kirkham (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991). Reviewed by: Louis Chalon, in Le Moyen Age 102.2 (1996): 367-69.

———. The Elegia of Madonna Fiammetta Sent by her to Women in Love, tr. Roberta L. Payne and Alexandra Hennessey Olsen (New York: Peter Lang, 1992). Reviewed by: Max Staples, in Parergon 12.2 (January, 1995): 144-45.

Brownlee, Marina Scordilis. The Severed Word: Ovid's "Heroides" and the "Novela Sentimental" (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990). Reviewed by: Bodo Guthmueller, in Zeitschrift fuer romanische Philologie 111.2 (1995): 272-73.

Calabrese, Michael A. Chaucer's Ovidian Arts of Love (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1994). Reviewed by: Peter Brown, in Medium Aevum 65.1 (1996): 133-34; Robert R. Edwards, in Speculum 71.4 (October, 1996): 931-33; Theresa Tinkle, in Journal of English and Germanic Philology 95.2 (April, 1996): 227-29.

Consoli, Joseph P. Giovanni Boccaccio: An Annotated Bibliography (New York: Garland Publishing, 1992). Reviewed by: Christopher Kleinhenz, in Studi sul Boccaccio 23 (1995): 281-84.

Doob, Penelope Reed. The Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990). Reviewed by: Margaret Clunies Ross, in Parergon 12.2 (January, 1995): 248.

Forni, Pier Massimo. Forme complesse nel Decameron (Firenze: Olschki, 1992). Reviewed by: Claude Cazalé Bérard, in Revue des Etudes Italiennes 40.1-4 (janvier-decembre, 1994): 180-82.

Gittes, Katharine S. Framing the "Canterbury Tales": Chaucer and the Medieval Frame Narrative Tradition (Greenwood, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991). Reviewed by: A. C. Spearing, in Medieval et Humanistica 20 (1994): 228-33.

Grossvogel, Steven. Ambiguity and Allusion in Boccaccio's Filocolo (Firenze: Olschki, 1992). Reviewed by: Ada Testaferri, in Quaderni d'italianistica 15.1-2 (Primavera-Autunno, 1994): 267-69.

Kellogg, Laura D. Boccaccio's and Chaucer's Cressida (New York: Peter Lang, 1995). Reviewed by: Christopher Nissen, in Rivista di Studi Italiani 14.1 (giugno, 1996): 261-64.

Kirkham, Victoria. The Sign of Reason in Boccaccio's Fiction (Firenze: Olschki, 1993). Reviewed by: Giuseppe Chiecchi, in Studi sul Boccaccio 23 (1995): 284-87; Pier Massimo Forni, in MLN 111.1 (January, 1996): 171-80; M[ario] M[arti], in Giornale storico della letteratura italiana 171, fasc. 556 (1994): 627-28.

Kiser Lisa J. Truth and Textuality in Chaucer's Poetry (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1991). Reviewed by: A. C. Spearing, in Medieval et Humanistica 20 (1994): 228-33.

Land, Norman E. The Viewer As Poet: The Renaissance Response to Art (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994). Reviewed by: James S. Baumlin, in Sixteenth Century Journal 27.1 (Spring, 1996): 249-50; Elaine E. Whitaker, in South Atlantic Review 60.3 (September, 1995): 159-61.

Langer, Ullrich. Perfect Friendship: Studies in Literature and Moral Philosophy from Boccaccio to Corneille (Geneva: Droz, 1994). Reviewed by: Nancy S. Struever, in Sixteenth Century Journal 26.3 (Fall, 1995): 713-14.

Nolan, Barbara. Chaucer and the Tradition of the "Roman Antique" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992). Reviewed by: Donald C. Baker, in English Language Notes 33.1 (September, 1995): 76-78.

Scaglione, Aldo. Knights at Court: Courtliness Chivalry, and Courtesy From Ottonian Germany to the Italian Renaissance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991). Reviewed by: Pamela J. Benson, in Medieval et Humanistica 20 (1994): 225-28; R. Ian Jack, in Parergon 12.1 (July, 1994): 168-69; John A. Scott, in Modern Language Review 91.1 (January, 1996): 238-40.

Scanlon, Larry. Narrative, Authority, and Power: The Medieval Exemplum and the Chaucerian Tradition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994). Reviewed by: Seth Lerer, in Speculum 70.4 (October, 1995): 960-62.

Stillinger, Thomas C. The Song of Troilus: Lyric Authority in the Medieval Book (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992). Reviewed by: Douglas Kelly, in Italica 72.2 (Summer, 1995): 229-30.

Windeatt, Barry. Troilus and Criseyde (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992). Reviewed by: Donald C. Baker, in English Language Notes 33.1 (September, 1995): 74-76.