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Reading Dante - Jesper Hede - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Reading Dante - Jesper Hede - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Reading Dante: The Pursuit of Meaning examines the problem of determining the thematic unity of Dante''s Divina Commedia in the history of Dante studies. The question of unity has puzzled Dante readers for centuries, due to an apparent discrepancy between Dante''s construction of the afterworld and medieval Christian teachings on the conditions of the afterlife. If all sins condemned in Hell can be forgiven, we would expect to see them purged in Purgatory and their virtuous opposite celebrated in Paradise. In Dante''s account, however, the three realms of the afterlife appear as self-contained entities with only partially related structures that undermine the establishment of thematic correspondences and the determination of the poem''s thematic unity. Was Dante inconsistent in his exposition of the divine order, or have Dante scholars been inconsistent in their treatment of the poem''s thematic content? Jesper Hede examines the prevalent strategies of reading applied by Dante scholars in their attempt to solve the problem of unity. Detailing the major contributions to the resolution of the problem and focusing on medieval philosophy and modern hermeneutics, Hede argues that a systematic parallel reading of the poem''s three parts reveals that it is the vision of divine order that gives the poem its thematic unity.

DKK 1230.00
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Dante Encyclopedia - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Dante Encyclopedia - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Available for the first time in paperback, this essential resource presents a systematic introduction to Dante''s life and works, his cultural context and intellectual legacy. The only such work available in English, this Encyclopedia: - - - brings together contemporary theories on Dante, summarizing them in clear and vivid prose - provides in-depth discussions of the Divine Comedy, looking at title and form, moral structure, allegory and realism, manuscript tradition, and also taking account of the various editions of the work over the centuries - contains numerous entries on Dante''s other important writings and on the major subjects covered within them - addresses connections between Dante and philosophy, theology, poetics, art, psychology, science, and music as well as critical perspective across the ages, from Dante''s first critics to the present. - -

DKK 855.00
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Dante Satiro - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Dante Satiro - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

As Virgil leads Dante through Limbo, the uppermost portion of Hell, they are joined by four classical poets, and Virgil describes one of them as “Horace the satirist” (“Orazio satiro,” 4:89). This collection of essays applies the expression to Dante himself in order to emphasize the satirical elements of his works. Although Dante is not typically described as a satirist, anyone familiar with his works will recognize the strong satirical element in his many writings. By exploring the satiric elements in Dante’s literature, these essays explore the primary literary tool at his disposal for his prophetic objectives: the castigation of vice. This collection of essay is the first comprehensive study on Dante and satire within his entire corpus that has ever been published.

DKK 910.00
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Joyce's Dante - James Robinson - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Joyce's Dante - James Robinson - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Joyce''s engagement with Dante is a crucial component of all of his work. This title reconsiders the responses to Dante in Joyce''s work from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man to Finnegans Wake. It presents that encounter as an historically complex and contextually determined interaction reflecting the contested development of Dante''s reputation, readership and textuality throughout the nineteenth century. This process produced a ''Dante with a difference'', a uniquely creative and unorthodox construction of the poet which informed Joyce''s lifelong engagement with such works as the Vita Nuova and the Commedia. Tracing the movement through Joyce''s writing on exile as a mode of alienation and charting his growing interest in ideas of community, Joyce''s Dante shows how awareness of his changing reading of Dante can alter our understanding of one of the Irish writer''s lasting thematic preoccupations.

DKK 1041.00
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Understanding Dante - John A. Scott - Bog - University of Notre Dame Press - Plusbog.dk

Understanding Dante - John A. Scott - Bog - University of Notre Dame Press - Plusbog.dk

Firmly grounded in the latest advances of Dante scholarship, Understanding Dante offers an original and uniquely detailed, global analysis of Dante as poet of the Comedy that will be welcomed by those who read the poem in translation as well as by those who study the original Italian text. At the same time, Scott’s book will be welcome for its rich and insightful analysis of the whole corpus of Dante’s writings, as well as Scott’s mastery of the vast sea of critical literature in various languages. Scott bridges the gap that often exists between Dante studies in English-speaking countries and the great tradition of Dante scholarship in the poet’s homeland. No work in English about the great Italian poet can rival Understanding Dante ’s scope in both depth and breadth of close reading and critical vision.

DKK 1168.00
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Vita nuova - Dante Alighieri - Bog - University of Notre Dame Press - Plusbog.dk

Vita nuova - Dante Alighieri - Bog - University of Notre Dame Press - Plusbog.dk

This bilingual edition of the Vita Nuova is the first facing-page translation of this text to be available in over 50 years. Dino S. Cervigni and Edward Vasta have translated Dante''s lyrics into line-by-line free verse that seeks to reproduce Dante''s lyrical complexities of meaning, form, and style. The three-part introduction covers Dante''s life and work, the form and content of the Vita Nuova , and the theory and practice adopted for the translation. A full concordance with glossary of the Italian text and a detailed index to the English translation will assist Dante scholars, college students, and educated readers alike.

DKK 917.00
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Interpreting Dante - - Bog - University of Notre Dame Press - Plusbog.dk

Interpreting Dante - - Bog - University of Notre Dame Press - Plusbog.dk

In Interpreting Dante: Essays on the Traditions of Dante Commentary, Paola Nasti and Claudia Rossignoli gather essays by prominent scholars of the Dante commentary tradition to discuss the significance of this tradition for the study of the Comedy, its broad impact on the history of ideas, and its contribution to the development of literary criticism. Interest in the Dante commentary tradition has grown considerably in recent years, but projects on this subject tend to focus on philological reconstructions. The contributors shift attention to the interpretation of texts, authors, and reading communities by examining how Dante commentators developed interpretative paradigms that contributed to the advancement of literary criticism and the creation of the Western literary canon. Dante commentaries illustrate the evolution of notions of "literariness" and literature, genre and style, intertextuality and influence, literary histories, traditions and canons, authorship and readerships, paratexts and textual materiality. The volume includes methodological essays exploring theoretical aspects of the tradition, such as the creation of a taxonomy for categorizing typologies of commentaries; the relationship between commentators and their contemporary readers; the interplay between written and visual commentaries; and the impact of patronage on the forms of exegesis. Other essays, including two in Italian, examine case studies of individual commentaries, giving an account of the modus operandi of Dante's exegetes by relating their approaches to the cultural, ideological, and political agendas of the community of readers and scholars to which the commentators belonged.

DKK 1168.00
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Dante Now - - Bog - University of Notre Dame Press - Plusbog.dk

Dante Now - - Bog - University of Notre Dame Press - Plusbog.dk

Written by ten distinguished Dante scholars, the essays in Dante Now represent the most significant areas of contemporary Dante studies. This collection, originating from a 1993 University of Notre Dame conference, includes some of the particular on three intensely cultivated areas of Dante studies: poetics, "minor works,"and reception. The stimulating ferment on the problem of Dante's poetics is well represented in the first three essays. These range in approach from the stylistic-ideological treatment of Zygmunt G. Baranski's essay to the inter-and intra-textual concerns presented by Christopher Kleinhenz, to the compelling hermeneutical and epistemological reflections on Dante's poetics given by Giuseppe Mazzotta. Dante's so-called "minor works" have increasingly become a focus of attention in contemporary Dante studies, and the textual problems represented by the Vita nuova are sweepingly reconsidered by Dino S. Cervigni and Edward Vasta. Ronald L. Martinez dedicates a substantial essay to Dante's poem of exile "Tre donne," and Albert Russell Ascoli addresses the issue of the relationship between Dante's Commedia and the minor works, especially the Monarchia. The final section of essays examines the phenomenon of the original and continuing vitality of Dante's work as a profoundly of influential, enduring, and enlivening literary classic. R.A. Shoaf addresses the literary influence of Dante in medieval England; Kevin Brownlee investigates Dante's most important medieval French connection in the works of Christine de Pizan; and Nancy Vickers illuminates Dante's translatability into avante garde films and videos. Finally, Brian Richardson considers the Commedia's Fortunes during the Renaissance in terms of its remarkable editorial and publishing history.

DKK 940.00
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Transnational Dante - Heather Renee Sottong - Bog - Fordham University Press - Plusbog.dk

Transnational Dante - Heather Renee Sottong - Bog - Fordham University Press - Plusbog.dk

Opens the field of Dante Studies to further transnational studies of the Divine Comedy’s circulation, translation, and global influenceThis fascinating book examines how Dante was repurposed by Argentine politicians and authors who were concerned with the construction of Argentine national identity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Sottong’s work is informed by the theories of Eric Hobsbawm, Benedict Anderson, and Nicolas Shumway, who coined the concepts of “invented traditions,” “imagined communities,” and “guiding fictions,” respectively. Sottong has applied these notions to the case of Argentina, which, after the War of Independence from Spain (1810–1818), had to develop its own national cultural identity. In this volume, she investigates Dante’s transnational influence in Argentina: Why did Argentine authors consistently call upon Dante in their attempts to develop Argentine literature? What are the textual and thematic characteristics of Dante’s Divine Comedy that make it an ideal vehicle for literary appropriation? What are the historical and cultural factors that account for Dante’s enduring popularity in Italy and beyond? How did the strong presence of Italians in Argentina influence cultural production in the developing nation? And how are the re-writings of Dante in the Argentine canon in dialogue with one another?What Sottong found, remarkably, was that rewriting Dante was a way for Argentine authors to voice their views on the direction that should be taken to develop Argentine letters; Dante became something of a literary guide as Argentine intellectuals navigated the complex labyrinth of their national identity. The consistent rewriting of the Divine Comedy in the Argentine context testifies to the fact that great works of literature can be revived during different periods and even reappropriated by various peoples to foster mythologies of inclusion or exclusion related to national identity.

DKK 920.00
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Dante, Artist of Gesture - Heather Webb - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Dante, Artist of Gesture - Heather Webb - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Dante, Artist of Gesture proposes a visual technique for reading Dante''s Comedy, suggesting that the reader engages with Dante''s striking images of souls as if these images were arranged in an architectural space. Art historians have shown how series of discrete images or scenes in medieval places of worship, such as the mosaics in the Baptistery of San Giovanni in Florence or the frescoes in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, establish not only narrative sequences but also parallelisms between registers, forging links between those registers by the use of colour and gestural forms. Heather Webb takes up those techniques to show that the Comedy likewise invites the reader to make visual links between disparate, non-sequential moments in the text. In other words, Webb argues that Dante''s poem asks readers to view its verbally articulated sequences of images with a set of observational tools that could be acquired from the practice of engaging with and meditating on the bodily depictions of vice and virtue in fresco cycles or programmes of mosaics in places of worship. One of the most inherently visible aspects of the Comedy is the representation of signature gestures of the characters described in each of the realms. This book traces described gestures and bodily signs across the canticles of the poem to provide a key for identifying affective and devotional itineraries within the text.

DKK 842.00
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Dante and the Mediterranean Comedy - Andrea Celli - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Dante and the Mediterranean Comedy - Andrea Celli - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

In recent decades the concept of Mediterranean has been cited with increasing frequency in relation to the study of medieval literatures. And yet, in what sense would Dante''s Comedy be ''Mediterranean''? Is it because of its Greek-Arabic and Islamic sources? Dante and the Mediterranean Comedy analyzes the ideological function of references to the sea in the study of the Comedy undertaken by Enrico Cerulli, a scholar of Somali-Ethiopian languages, and a colonial governor of ''Italian East Africa.'' Then it presents novel lines of inquiry on the reception and appropriation of the poem, such as the presence of Islamic sources in early commentaries of the Comedy, and cross-cultural allusions to Dante''s Hell in some graffiti on the walls of the Spanish Inquisition prison in Palermo. The image of the Mediterranean that seeps through the poem and through the history of its circulation is vivid yet hardly idyllic.

DKK 901.00
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Dante, Michelangelo and Milton - John Arthos - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Dante, Michelangelo and Milton - John Arthos - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Originally published in 1963, this is a study of the greatness of Dante, Michelangelo and Milton, and of the differences in the power and effect of their work. This book shows how differing philosophical commitments help explain differences in the character of their greatness. The ancient treatise On the Sublime provides the starting point for these studies and in an introductory essay the author examines Longinus’ obligations to Platonic and Stoic philosophy. In the essays which relate the critical doctrines of Dante, Michelangelo and Milton to philosophy, he shows how far their thought accords with Longinus’ and to what degree they depend upon the same philosophic traditions. The final emphasis, however, is upon the relation of their ideas to the distinctive elements of their greatness.

DKK 882.00
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Poetry in Dialogue in the Duecento and Dante - David Bowe - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Poetry in Dialogue in the Duecento and Dante - David Bowe - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Poetry in Dialogue in the Duecento and Dante provides a new perspective on the highly networked literary landscape of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italy. It demonstrates the fundamental role of dialogue between and within texts in the works of four poets who represent some of the major developments in early Italian literature: Guittone d''Arezzo, Guido Guinizzelli, Guido Cavalcanti, and Dante. Rather than reading the cultural landscape through the lens of Dante''s works, significant though they may be, the first part of this study reconstructs the rich network of literary, especially poetic dialogue that was at the heart of medieval writing in Italy. The second part uses this reconstruction to demonstrate Dante''s engagement with, and indebtedness to, the dynamics of exchange that characterised the practice of medieval Italian poets. The overall argument--for the centrality of dialogic processes to the emerging Italian literary tradition--is underpinned by a conceptualisation of dialogue in relation to medieval and modern literary theory and philosophy of language. By triangulating between Brunetto Latini''s Rettorica, Mikhail Bakhtin''s ''dialogism'', and as sense of ''performative'' speech adapted from J. L. Austin, Poetry in Dialogue shows the openness of its corpus to new dialogues and interpretations, highlighting the instabilities of even the most apparently fixed, monumental texts.

DKK 818.00
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