Dante : : Contemporary Perspectives /

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

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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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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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

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