Dante : : Contemporary Perspectives / / ed. by Amilcare Iannucci.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Ahern, John,; Ascoli, Albert Russell,; Barański, Zygmunt G.,; Barolini, Teodolinda,; Botterill, Steven,; Ferrante, Joan M.,; Fertile, Lino,; Franke, William,; Iannucci, Amilcare A.,; Kleinhenz, Christopher,; Lansing, Richard,; Lund-Mead, Carolynn,; Parker, Deborah,; Picone, Michelangelo,
• HerausgeberIn: Iannucci, Amilcare,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Toronto Italian Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

Dante: Contemporary Perspectives gathers recent and newly commissioned articles on Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), whose epic the Divine Comedy, is one of the landmarks of world literature. The essays in this volume probe current critical assumptions about the celebrated Italian poet, literary theorist, moral philosopher, and political theorist. Dante's attitude towards poetic authority and language comes under scrutiny in several essays, while others examine his political thought and his views on women and gender. Several articles focus exclusively on the Divine Comedy, and, in particular, on its distinctive textual characteristics. There are new readings of two of the Divine Comedy's most important episodes - those of Paolo and Francesca, the Earthly Paradise, and Ulysses - whose significance extends far beyond their immediate contexts. These essays bring into focus Dante's bold narrative innovations and reflections on literature and history.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Dante and Medieval Poetics -- Palinode and History in the Oeuvre of Dante -- Dante and the Classics -- Dante and the Bible: Biblical Citation in the Divine Comedy -- Forbidden Love: Metaphor and History (Inferno 5) -- Dante’s Ulysses: Narrative and Transgression -- Narrative Design in Dante’s Earthly Paradise -- A Desire of Paradise and a Paradise of Desire: Dante and Mysticism -- Dante and the Authority of Poetic Language -- Dante and Politics -- Dante and Androgyny -- Singing the Book: Orality in the Reception of Dante’s Comedy -- Interpreting the Commentary Tradition to the Comedy -- Reader’s Application and the Moment of Truth in Dante’s Divine Comedy -- Notes on Contributors -- Index