Dante : Contemporary Perspectives.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (322 pages)
- Toronto Italian Studies .
- Toronto Italian Studies .
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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Dante Alighieri,-1265-1321-Criticism and interpretation.