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Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (484 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823227051
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary CultureDDC classification:
  • 851.1
LOC classification:
  • PQ4381.2 -- .B37 2006eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Reading Against the Grain: Musings of an Italianist, from the Astral to the Artisanal -- I. A PHILOSOPHY OF DESIRE -- 1. Dante and the Lyric Past -- 2. Guittone's Ora parrà, Dante's Doglia mi reca, and the Commedia's Anatomy of Desire -- 3. Dante and Cavalcanti (On Making Distinctions in Matters of Love): Inferno 5 in Its Lyric and Autobiographical Context -- 4. Medieval Multiculturalism and Dante's Theology of Hell -- II. CHRISTIAN AND PAGAN INTERTEXTS -- 5. Why Did Dante Write the Commedia? Dante and the Visionary Tradition -- 6. Minos's Tail: The Labor of Devising Hell (Aeneid 6.431-33 and Inferno 5.1-24) -- 7. Q: Does Dante Hope for Vergil's Salvation? A: Why Do We Care? For the Very Reason We Should Not Ask the Question -- 8. Arachne, Argus, and St. John: Transgressive Art in Dante and Ovid -- III. ORDERING THE MACROTEXT: TIME AND NARRATIVE -- 9. Cominciandomi dal principio infino a la fine: Forging Anti-narrative in the Vita nuova -- 10. The Making of a Lyric Sequence: Time and Narrative in Petrarch's: Rerum vulgarium fragmenta -- 11. The Wheel of the Decameron -- 12. Editing Dante's Rime and Italian Cultural History: Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarca . . . Barbi, Contini, Foster-Boyde, De Robertis -- IV. GENDER -- 13. Le parole son femmine e i fatti son maschi: Toward a Sexual Poetics of the Decameron (Decameron 2.9, 2.10, 5.10) -- 14. Dante and Francesca da Rimini: Realpolitik, Romance, and Gender -- 15. Sotto benda: Gender in the Lyrics of Dante and Guittone d'Arezzo (With a Brief Excursus on Cecco d'Ascoli) -- 16. Notes toward a Gendered History of Italian Literature, with a Discussion of Dante's Beatrix Loquax -- Notes -- 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.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Reading Against the Grain: Musings of an Italianist, from the Astral to the Artisanal -- I. A PHILOSOPHY OF DESIRE -- 1. Dante and the Lyric Past -- 2. Guittone's Ora parrà, Dante's Doglia mi reca, and the Commedia's Anatomy of Desire -- 3. Dante and Cavalcanti (On Making Distinctions in Matters of Love): Inferno 5 in Its Lyric and Autobiographical Context -- 4. Medieval Multiculturalism and Dante's Theology of Hell -- II. CHRISTIAN AND PAGAN INTERTEXTS -- 5. Why Did Dante Write the Commedia? Dante and the Visionary Tradition -- 6. Minos's Tail: The Labor of Devising Hell (Aeneid 6.431-33 and Inferno 5.1-24) -- 7. Q: Does Dante Hope for Vergil's Salvation? A: Why Do We Care? For the Very Reason We Should Not Ask the Question -- 8. Arachne, Argus, and St. John: Transgressive Art in Dante and Ovid -- III. ORDERING THE MACROTEXT: TIME AND NARRATIVE -- 9. Cominciandomi dal principio infino a la fine: Forging Anti-narrative in the Vita nuova -- 10. The Making of a Lyric Sequence: Time and Narrative in Petrarch's: Rerum vulgarium fragmenta -- 11. The Wheel of the Decameron -- 12. Editing Dante's Rime and Italian Cultural History: Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarca . . . Barbi, Contini, Foster-Boyde, De Robertis -- IV. GENDER -- 13. Le parole son femmine e i fatti son maschi: Toward a Sexual Poetics of the Decameron (Decameron 2.9, 2.10, 5.10) -- 14. Dante and Francesca da Rimini: Realpolitik, Romance, and Gender -- 15. Sotto benda: Gender in the Lyrics of Dante and Guittone d'Arezzo (With a Brief Excursus on Cecco d'Ascoli) -- 16. Notes toward a Gendered History of Italian Literature, with a Discussion of Dante's Beatrix Loquax -- Notes -- 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.

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