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Author | : Maria Rosa Menocal |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822311171 |
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Using the works of Dante as its critical focus, María Rosa Menocal's original and imaginative study examines questions of truth, ideology, and reality in poetry as they occur in a series of texts and in the relationship between those texts across time. In each case, Menocal raises theoretical issues of critical importance to contemporary debates regarding the structure of literary relations. Beginning with a reading of La vita nuova and the Commedia, this literary history of poetic literary histories explores the Dantean poetic experience as it has been limited and rewritten by later poets, particularly Petrarch, Boccaccio, Borges, Pound, Eliot, and the all but forgotten Silvio Pellico, author of Le mie prigioni. By blending discussions of Dante's own marriage of literature and literary history with those investigations into the imitative qualities of later works, Writing in Dante's Cult of Truth presents an intertextual literary history, one which seeks to maintain the uncanniness of literature, while imagining history to be neither linear nor clearly distinguishable from literature itself.
Author | : William Franke |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1996-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0226259986 |
Download Dante's Interpretive Journey Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Franke reads the Divine Comedy through the insights into interpretation developed by hermeneutics, and at the same time uses Dante's poem, with its interpretive praxis based on a theological vision, to challenge prevailing assumptions about interpretation today. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author | : Christine O'Connell Baur |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0802092063 |
Download Dante's Hermeneutics of Salvation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Widely considered one of the greatest works produced in Europe during the Middle Ages, Dante's La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy) has influenced countless generations of readers, yet surprisingly few books have attempted to explain the philosophical relevance of this great epic. Dante's Hermeneutics of Salvation takes on this ambitious project. Turning to Heidegger to provide a theoretical framework for her study, Christine O'Connell Baur illustrates how Dante's poem invites its readers to undertake their own existential-hermeneutic journey to freedom. As the pilgrim progresses in his journey, she argues, he moves beyond a merely literal, 'infernal' self-interpretation that is grounded on present attachments to things in the world. If we readers accompany the pilgrim in this hermeneutic conversion, we will see that our own existential commitments can help disclose the meaning of our world and our own finite freedom. A work of considerable importance both for and teachers and students of Dante studies, Dante's Hermeneutics of Salvation will also prove useful to scholars working in medieval studies, philosophy, and literary theory.
Author | : William Franke |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2021-08-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1009036971 |
Download The Divine Vision of Dante's Paradiso Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Canto XVIII of Paradiso, Dante sees thirty-five letters of Scripture - LOVE JUSTICE, YOU WHO RULE THE EARTH - 'painted' one after the other in the sky. It is an epiphany that encapsulates the Paradiso, staging its ultimate goal - the divine vision. This book offers a fresh, intensive reading of this extraordinary passage at the heart of the third canticle of the Divine Comedy. While adapting in novel ways the methods of the traditional lectura Dantis, William Franke meditates independently on the philosophical, theological, political, ethical, and aesthetic ideas that Dante's text so provocatively projects into a multiplicity of disciplinary contexts. This book demands that we question not only what Dante may have meant by his representations, but also what they mean for us today in the broad horizon of our intellectual traditions and cultural heritage.
Author | : Warren Ginsberg |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780472109715 |
Download Dante's Aesthetics of Being Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Explores the domain of the aesthetic in Dante
Author | : Francesco Ciabattoni |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2024-08-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3111406490 |
Download Dante's Performance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Through an historical and philological lens, this book explores passages from Dante's Commedia which reveal elements inspired byprocessions, pageants, liturgical drama, psalm singing, or dance performance. The sacred poem finds influence in medieval theories of the performing arts as well as actual performances which Dante would have seen in churches or town squares. Dante's Performance opens a new perspective from which to consider the Commedia: Dante expected his contemporary readers to recognize references to and echoes of psalms, sacred plays, and performative practices. Twenty-first-century readers are tasked with reconstructing a cultural framework which allows us to grasp those same textual references. From the dramatization of the harrowing of hell in Inferno IX, to Beatrice's celebratory return on top of Mount Purgatory, to the songs of the blessed, this study connects Dante's language to coeval theoretical and practical texts about performance. If hell is "the Middle Age's theatrum diaboli," purgatory stages a performed purification through songs and acting, while paradise offers the spectacle of blessed spirits within the heavenly spheres as an aid to human understanding (Par. IV 28-39).
Author | : David L. Pike |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2018-09-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501729470 |
Download Passage through Hell Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Taking the culturally resonant motif of the descent to the underworld as his guiding thread, David L. Pike traces the interplay between myth and history in medieval and modernist literature. Passage through Hell suggests new approaches to the practice of comparative literature, and a possible escape from the current morass of competing critical schools and ideologies. Pike's readings of Louis Ferdinand Céline and Walter Benjamin reveal the tensions at work in the modern appropriation of structures derived from ancient and medieval descents. His book shows how these structures were redefined in modernism and persist in contemporary critical practice. In order to recover the historical corpus of modernism, he asserts, it is necessary to acknowledge the attraction that medieval forms and motifs held for modernist literature and theory. By pairing the writings of the postwar German dramatist and novelist Peter Weiss with Dante's Commedia, and Christine de Pizan with Virginia Woolf, Pike argues for a new level of complexity in the relation between medieval and modern poetics. Pike's supple and persuasive reading of the Commedia resituates that text within the contradictions of medieval tradition. He contends that the Dantean allegory of conversion, altered to suit the exigencies of modernism, maintains its hold over current literature and theory. The postwar writers Pike treats—Weiss, Seamus Heaney, and Derek Walcott—exemplify alternate strategies for negotiating the legacy of modernism. The passage through hell emerges as a way of disentangling images of the past from their interpretation in the present.
Author | : William Franke |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2021-09-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1316516172 |
Download Dante's Vita Nuova and the New Testament Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A vivid reimagining of the Vita nuova as a revolution in poetry and a revelation of divine destiny through love.
Author | : Brett Foster |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Criticism |
ISBN | : 1438112858 |
Download Dante Alighieri Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Presents a collection of critical essays on the works of Dante Alighieri.
Author | : Igor Candido |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2018-02-19 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 3110419300 |
Download Petrarch and Boccaccio Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The early modern and modern cultural world in the West would be unthinkable without Petrarch and Boccaccio. Despite this fact, there is still no scholarly contribution entirely devoted to analysing their intellectual revolution. Internationally renowned scholars are invited to discuss and rethink the historical, intellectual, and literary roles of Petrarch and Boccaccio between the great model of Dante’s encyclopedia and the ideas of a double or multifaceted culture in the era of Italian Renaissance Humanism. In his lyrical poems and Latin treatises, Petrarch created a cultural pattern that was both Christian and Classical, exercising immense influence on the Western World in the centuries to come. Boccaccio translated this pattern into his own vernacular narratives and erudite works, ultimately claiming as his own achievement the reconstructed unity of the Ancient Greek and Latin world in his contemporary age. The volume reconsiders Petrarch’s and Boccaccio’s heritages from different perspectives (philosophy, theology, history, philology, paleography, literature, theory), and investigates how these heritages shaped the cultural transition between the end of the Middle Ages and the early modern era, as well as European identity.