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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 Jan 2022

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 …

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Macbeth And Ugolino: Another Verdian Encounter With Dante, David Rosen Jan 2001

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 Jun 1977

"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 Dec 1976

"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 May 1976

"Cenni Biografici Del Maestro Di Musica Giuseppe Verdi" (Part 1), Giuseppe Demaldè, Mary Jane Phillips Matz, Gino Macchidani

Verdi Forum

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