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Dante : Contemporary Perspectives.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Toronto Italian StudiesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1997Copyright date: ©1997Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (322 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442673717
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: DanteDDC classification:
  • 851.1
LOC classification:
  • PQ4390.D368 1997
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Summary: The essays in this volume probe current critical assumptions about the celebrated Italian poet, literary theorist, moral philosopher, political theorist.
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Intro -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

The essays in this volume probe current critical assumptions about the celebrated Italian poet, literary theorist, moral philosopher, political theorist.

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