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The Governance of Friendship: Law and Gender in the DECAMERON by Michael Sherberg addresses two related and heretofore unexamined problems in the pages of the Decameron: its theory of friendship and the legal theory embedded in it. Sherberg shows how Aristotle's Ethics as well as Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica inform these two discourses, at the intersection of which Boccaccio locates the question of gender relations which is one of the boo...

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This volume, like others in the MLA's Approaches to Teaching World Literature series, is divided into two parts. Part 1, "Materials, ” gives the instructor bibliographic information on the text and contexts of the book, the critical literature, and audiovisual and electronic resources. Part 2, "Approaches, ” contains nineteen essays on teaching Pinocchio and its adaptations, which cover such topics as Collodi's life, society in post-Unificatio...

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Sherberg has gathered an array of scholars in various disciplines to approach Collodi's famous work from the multiple perspectives the text itself demands....[These] essays will be useful in [many] college class settings." -- Myriam Swennen Ruthenberg Florida Atlantic University