How does Boccaccio treat the Black Death in his Decameron? How does AIDS figure in the contemporary plays of Larry Kramer and William Hoffman? How have the historical and current outbreaks of contagious disease affected the creation of literature and how has this literature in turn shaped our response to disease? What can art hope to achieve in the midst of an epidemic? main themes have to do with some form of contagious or pestilential physical disease and its social or psychological consequences. Leavy investigates such ...
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How does Boccaccio treat the Black Death in his Decameron? How does AIDS figure in the contemporary plays of Larry Kramer and William Hoffman? How have the historical and current outbreaks of contagious disease affected the creation of literature and how has this literature in turn shaped our response to disease? What can art hope to achieve in the midst of an epidemic? main themes have to do with some form of contagious or pestilential physical disease and its social or psychological consequences. Leavy investigates such works as A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe, The Pardoner's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer, The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, The Masque of the Red Death and other tales by Edgar Allan Poe, Ghosts and An Enemy of the People by Henbrik Ibsen, As Is by William Hoffman, The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer, Chip off the Old Block by Wallace Stegner, Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter, Damaged Goods by Eugene Brieux, Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Plague by Albert Camus.
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