Comparative Literature and Culture 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Black Death, Three Rings, Intentional Community
27 Jan 2019
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His writing is not much aboutit is pure storytelling. Borrow the frame-tale (frame-stories) from thousands and one nights. This number is used because it suggests the completeness, orders, closure. Showing up in the title: decameron: comes from greek, means. Ten days : ten people meet for ten days to tell stories. 10 days: 10 people x 10 stories/day = 100. Actually, there are 101 stories because, at some point of the work, boccaccio tells one story, inserts along with the stories. The number is constantly defused by the idea of ultimate disorders (good disorder), openness (10 is openness, the work is to defuse this number, openness encyclopedia, stories about the eternalbut they have to end . Same with the thousands and one night boccaccio suggest openness and infinity. The historical context in the main stories: second half of the 14th century. There was the black death (black plague): death was everywhere.
