Dante's Drama of the Mind : : A Modern Reading of the Purgatorio / / Francis Fergusson.
The individual insights employed in this reading of the Purgatorio are those of a twentieth-century mind, as are the author's references: T. S. Eliot, Henry James, I.A. Richards, Jacques Maritain, and many others. Purposely avoiding the pitfalls of Dantean scholarship, Mr. Fergusson reveals the...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©1953 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- FOREWORD
- A NOTE ON THE TRANSLATIONS IN THE TEXT
- CONTENTS
- PART ONE THE PATHOS OF EARTH (THE FIRST DAY: CANTOS I-IX)
- CHAPTER 1. THE METAPHOR OF THE JOURNEY
- CHAPTER 2. BEFORE UNDERSTANDING
- CHAPTER 3. THE FINE VEIL OF POETRY
- CHAPTER 4. CANTO IX: THE PROPHETIC FIRST NIGHT
- CHAPTER 5. ON THE DRAMATIC COHERENCE OF THE CANTO
- PART TWO. THE ANCIENT PATH TO SELF-KNOWLEDGE (THE SECOND DAY: CANTOS X-XVIII)
- CHAPTER 6. VIRGIL'S GUIDANCE
- CHAPTER 7. THE PATTERN OF LIBERATION
- CHAPTER 8. CANTO XV: THE LIGHT OF THE MIND
- CHAPTER 9. CANTO XVI: REASON IN DARKNESS
- CHAPTER 10. CANTO XVII: THE ANALOGOUS FORMS OF HUMAN LOVES
- CHAPTER 11. CANTO XVIII: THE FRUIT OF PHILOSOPHY
- CHAPTER 12. ON INTERPRETING VIRGIL
- PART THREE THE PILGRIM AGAINST TIME (THE THIRD DAY: CANTOS XIX-XXVII)
- CHAPTER 13. THE NEW THIRST
- CHAPTER 14. CANTO XXI: A GHOSTLY SCENE OF RECOGNITION
- CHAPTER 15. THE NEW LIFE OF HISTORY
- CHAPTER 16. THE FRAGRANT TREES: PARADOXES OF HUMAN NOURISHMENT
- CHAPTER 17. CANTO XXV: THE PERILOUS PASSAGE
- CHAPTER 18: THE DOLCE STIL NUOVO
- CHAPTER 19. CANTO XXVII: LOVE'S SACRIFICE
- PART FOUR TIME REDEEMED (THE MORNING OF THE FOURTH DAY: CANTOS XVIII-XXXIII)
- CHAPTER 20. THE DEVELOPED FORM OF THE PURGATORIO
- CHAPTER 21. BEATRICE: CENTER OF THE ALLEGORY
- CHAPTER 22. THE POETRY OF THE END OF THE EARTHLY JOURNEY
- CHAPTER 23. MATELDA: THE LETTER FOR THE SPIRIT
- NOTES