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- who: Jennifer Rushworth from the AUTHOR Jennifer Rushworth orcidorg/0000-0002-2898, University College London, GB have published the article: Community, Survival, and the Arts in the Boccaccian Tradition, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)
SUMMARY
This essay brings Edgar Allan Poe`s "Masque of the Red Death" into dialogue with Giovanni Boccaccio`s Decameron, a fourteenth-century Italian text. I consider Boccaccio`s text for its justification of the characters` decision to escape the city, their manner of living together, and their stories` content. I examine Poe`s story as a kind of tragic . . .
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