Author : Rachel Jacoff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 20,54 MB
Release : 2007-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521844304
A fully updated 2007 edition of this useful and accessible coursebook on Dante's works, context and reception history.
Author : Zygmunt G. Barański
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 42,98 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108421296
Accessible and informative account of Dante's great Commedia: its purpose, themes and styles, and its reception over the centuries.
Author : Aldo S. Bernardo
Publisher : Global Academic Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 25,73 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781586842635
An in-depth companion guide to Dante’s Divine Comedy.
Author : Jay Ruud
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 16,72 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Dante Alighieri
ISBN : 1438108419
Dante Alighieri is one of the greatest poets in world history. His brilliant epic, "The Divine Comedy", an imagined journey through Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory, continues to captivate readers. This work provides an information on his life and work. It covers Dante's canon, including his love poems in "La Vita Nuova" and his philosophical works.
Author : Charles Martindale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 46,59 MB
Release : 1997-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521498852
Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European literature, art, and politics. This Companion is designed as an indispensable guide for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of an author critical to so many disciplines. It consists of essays by seventeen scholars from Britain, the USA, Ireland and Italy which offer a range of different perspectives both traditional and innovative on Virgil's works, and a renewed sense of why Virgil matters today. The Companion is divided into four main sections, focussing on reception, genre, context, and form. This ground-breaking book not only provides a wealth of material for an informed reading but also offers sophisticated insights which point to the shape of Virgilian scholarship and criticism to come.
Author : Craig W. Kallendorf
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 47,93 MB
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1444334166
A Companion to the Classical Tradition accommodates the pressing need for an up-to-date introduction and overview of the growing field of reception studies. A comprehensive introduction and overview of the classical tradition - the interpretation of classical texts in later centuries Comprises 26 newly commissioned essays from an international team of experts Divided into three sections: a chronological survey, a geographical survey, and a section illustrating the connections between the classical tradition and contemporary theory
Author : Jason M. Baxter
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 26,72 MB
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1493413104
Dante's Divine Comedy is widely considered to be one of the most significant works of literature ever written. It is renowned not only for its ability to make truths known but also for its power to make them loved. It captures centuries of thought on sin, love, community, moral living, God's work in history, and God's ineffable beauty. Like a Gothic cathedral, the beauty of this great poem can be appreciated at first glance, but only with a guide can its complexity and layers of meaning be fully comprehended. This accessible introduction to Dante, which also serves as a primer to the Divine Comedy, helps readers better appreciate and understand Dante's spiritual masterpiece. Jason Baxter, an expert on Dante, covers all the basic themes of the Divine Comedy, such as sin, redemption, virtue, and vice. The book contains a general introduction to Dante and a specific introduction to each canticle (Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso), making it especially well suited for classroom and homeschool use.
Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : Alma Books
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 35,49 MB
Release : 2019-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 071454616X
"e;Life of Dante"e; brings together the earliest accounts of Dante available, putting the celebratory essay of literary genius Giovanni Boccaccio together with the historical analysis of leading humanist Leonardo Bruni. Their writings, along with the other sources included in this volume, provide a wealth of insight and information into Dante's unique character and life, from his susceptibility to the torments of passionate love, his involvement in politics, scholastic enthusiasms and military experience, to the stories behind the greatest heights of his poetic achievements.Not only are these accounts invaluable for their subject matter, they are also seminal examples of early biographical writing. Also included in this volume is a biography of Boccaccio, perhaps as great an influence on world literature as Dante himself.
Author : Peter J. Leithart
Publisher : Canon Press & Book Service
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 50,64 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1885767161
As one of the supreme Christian epic poems, Dante's Divine Comedy provides not only far more personality and emotional depth than the pagan epics, it also opens up all the issues on which Western history turns - truth, beauty, goodness, sin, sanctification, and triumph. For all that, C.S. Lewis loved the Comedy for its seemingly effortless poetry. In this guide Peter Leithart uses a biblical angle to open up the Comedy for students, high school and up. He begins his discussion by examining the meaning and place of the courtly love tradition and then introduces us to the varied levels of meaning throughout the work. In the heart of the guide, Leithart walks us carefully through the craft and symbolism of each progressive stage - Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Each section contains helpful study questions.
Author : A. D. Cousins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 19,58 MB
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139825399
Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and e. e. cummings. The chapters explore how we think of the sonnet as a 'lyric' and what is involved in actually trying to write one. The book includes a lively discussion between three distinguished contemporary poets - Paul Muldoon, Jeff Hilson and Meg Tyler - on the experience of writing a sonnet, and a chapter which traces the sonnet's diffusion across manuscript, print, screen and the internet. A fresh and authoritative overview of this major poetic form, the Companion expertly guides the reader through the sonnet's history and development into the global multimedia phenomenon it is today.
