A South African Convivio with Dante : : born frees' interpretations of the Commedia / / edited by Sonia Fanucchi, Anita Virga.

• Superior document: Studi e saggi
• TeilnehmendeR: Virga, Anita,; Fanucchi, Sonia,
• Place / Publishing House: Firenze : : Firenze University Press,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Studi e saggi (Florence, Italy)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (203 pages).

This book offers a collection of South African university students' written responses to the Commedia and scholars' commentary on them. The students' collection includes writings of all genres and subjects: prose, poetry, personal reflection, dialogue, non-fiction based on the first t...

Table of Contents

• Foreword
• 9
• Foreword
• 11
• Reading Dante in South Africa
• 13
• Part I
• 25
• Earthy Paradise and Liminal Thresholds in Dantes Purgatorio
• 27
• A Mad Flight Into Inferno Once Again The Party
• 31
• A Mad Flight Into Inferno Once Again Canto XIII Now Smells Like Roses
• 37
• A Mad Flight Into Inferno Once Again The Dream or The Ghost of Ulysses
• 41
• My Dantesque Ulyssean Return to the Commedia
• 83
• A Tree In Hell
• 89
• Part II
• 95
• Dante Can I Lead You? South African students write back across seven centuries and a hemisphere
• 97
• Reading La Commedia in PostApartheid South Africa
• 105
• Dantes Purgatorio Breaks the Chains of the Born Frees
• 117
• The Influence of the Comedy in three South African Writings
• 131
• The Unattainable South African Paradise
• 143
• A Mad Flight Into Inferno Once Again Eating John Vorster
• 45
• The Storm
• 51
• The Lodestone
• 63
• A praise poem inspired by Francesca da Rimini
• 69
• Beatrice
• 73
• Yet I had not discovered you
• 79
• Dantes Ulysses Reinvented
• 153
• Dimitri Tsafendas Meets Dante Friend and Witness of Our Time
• 169
• Notes on the writings by the University of the Witwatersrand students of Dante
• 179
• Kai Lötters art work
• 197
• Scholars Biographies
• 201.