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Pierre Boaistuau's Histoires tragiques: A Study of Narrative Form and Tragic Vision - North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures Richard A. Carr
Pierre Boaistuau's Histoires tragiques: A Study of Narrative Form and Tragic Vision - North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures
Richard A. Carr
Explores Boaistuau's quest for a “nouvelle form” in his loose adaptation of Bandello's Novelle. Emphasizing psychological details absent in the Italian original, Carr repeatedly questions the human motives for the gruesome acts that Boaistuau selected as exempla for his readers.
260 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | 1979 |
| ISBN13 | 9780807892107 |
| Publishers | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Pages | 260 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 10 mm · 430 g |
| Language | English |