The Undivine Comedy : : Detheologizing Dante / / Teodolinda Barolini.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Barolini, Teodolinda,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1992]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 1992
• Edition: Core Textbook
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)

Accepting Dante's prophetic truth claims on their own terms, Teodolinda Barolini proposes a "detheologized" reading as a global new approach to the Divine Comedy. Not aimed at excising theological concerns from Dante, this approach instead attempts to break out of the hermeneutic guidelines that Dante structured into his poem and that have resulted in theologized readings whose outcomes have been overdetermined by the poet. By detheologizing, the reader can emerge from this poet's hall of mirrors and discover the narrative techniques that enabled Dante to forge a true fiction. Foregrounding the formal exigencies that Dante masked as ideology, Barolini moves from the problems of beginning to those of closure, focusing always on the narrative journey. Her investigation--which treats such topics as the visionary and the poet, the One and the many, narrative and time--reveals some of the transgressive paths trodden by a master of mimesis, some of the ways in which Dante's poetic adventuring is indeed, according to his own lights, Ulyssean.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- EDITIONS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Chapter 1. DETHEOLOGIZING DANTE: REALISM, RECEPTION, AND THE RESOURCES OF NARRATIVE -- Chapter 2. INFERNAL INCIPITS: THE POETICS OF THE NEW -- Chapter 3. ULYSSES, GERYON, AND THE AERONAUTICS OF NARRATIVE TRANSITION -- Chapter 4. NARRATIVE AND STYLE IN LOWER HELL -- Chapter 5. PURGATORY AS PARADIGM: TRAVELING THE NEW AND NEVER-BEFORE-TRAVELED PATH OF THIS LIFE/POEM -- Chapter 6. RE-PRESENTING WHAT GOD PRESENTED: THE ARACHNEAN ART OF THE TERRACE OF PRIDE -- Chapter 7. NONFALSE ERRORS AND THE TRUE DREAMS OF THE EVANGELIST -- Chapter 8. PROBLEMS IN PARADISE: THE MIMESIS OF TIME AND THE PARADOX OF PIUÁ E MENO -- Chapter 9. THE HEAVEN OF THE SUN AS A MEDITATION ON NARRATIVE -- Chapter 10. THE SACRED POEM IS FORCED TO JUMP: CLOSURE AND THE POETICS OF ENJAMBMENT -- APPENDIX. TRANSITION: HOW CANTOS BEGIN AND END -- NOTES -- INDEX