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Literature, Pandemic, And The Insufficiency Of Survival: Boccaccio’S Decameron And Emily St. John Mandel’S Station Eleven, Anthony P. Russell
Literature, Pandemic, And The Insufficiency Of Survival: Boccaccio’S Decameron And Emily St. John Mandel’S Station Eleven, Anthony P. Russell
Interdisciplinary Journal of Leadership Studies
The question of literature’s utility in relation to the “real world” has been asked since at least the time of Plato. This essay examines an extreme instance of this problem by investigating two works, Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron (1349-1353) and Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven (2016), that argue for the value of art in the midst of catastrophe. Boccaccio’s collection of 100 tales, written in the context of the Black Plague, and Mandel’s post-apocalyptic novel about a world devastated by a killer flu, overlap and diverge in instructive ways in making their cases for the important role of literature in …
Macbeth And Ugolino: Another Verdian Encounter With Dante, David Rosen
Macbeth And Ugolino: Another Verdian Encounter With Dante, David Rosen
Verdi Forum
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"Cenni Biografici Del Maestro Di Musica Giuseppe Verdi" (Part 3), Giuseppe Demaldè, Mary Jane Phillips-Matz, Ernesto Macchidani
"Cenni Biografici Del Maestro Di Musica Giuseppe Verdi" (Part 3), Giuseppe Demaldè, Mary Jane Phillips-Matz, Ernesto Macchidani
Verdi Forum
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"Cenni Biografici Del Maestro Di Musica Giuseppe Verdi" (Part 2), Giuseppe Demaldè, Mary Jane Phillips-Matz
"Cenni Biografici Del Maestro Di Musica Giuseppe Verdi" (Part 2), Giuseppe Demaldè, Mary Jane Phillips-Matz
Verdi Forum
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"Cenni Biografici Del Maestro Di Musica Giuseppe Verdi" (Part 1), Giuseppe Demaldè, Mary Jane Phillips Matz, Gino Macchidani
"Cenni Biografici Del Maestro Di Musica Giuseppe Verdi" (Part 1), Giuseppe Demaldè, Mary Jane Phillips Matz, Gino Macchidani
Verdi Forum
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