Five Frames for the Decameron: Communication and Social Systems in the CORNICE
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Using a fourfold approach derived from symbolic anthropology, sociology, semiotics, and philology, Joy Hambuechen Potter focuses on the cornice, or frame tale, of the Decameron, its purpose, and its relationship to the stories.
Originally published in 1982.
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