Author : John Alfred Scott
Publisher :
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 42,39 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
"In Understanding Dante, Scott goes beyond simply explaining Dante's works and provides a detailed discussion of the medieval poet's writings. John A. Scott has given readers a comprehensive account of Dante's work that will be useful to new readers and Dante scholars alike. It contains a helpful chronology of the events in the poet's life and a short glossary of poetic forms." --Magill Book Reviews
Author : Amilcare A. Iannucci
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 30,31 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802077363
The essays in this volume probe current critical assumptions about the celebrated Italian poet, literary theorist, moral philosopher, political theorist.
Author : Brenda Deen Schildgen
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,27 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780252027130
"In Dante and the Orient, Schildgen argues that Dante's treatment of the East enabled him to use the rhetoric employed in crusade narratives and other travel literature to oppose the military and polemic goals of the Crusades and to plead for the reformation of both church and state."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Amilcare A. Iannucci
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,9 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780802088277
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the seminal works of western literature. Its impact on modern culture has been enormous, nourishing a plethora of twentieth century authors from Joyce and Borges to Kenzaburo Oe. Although Dante's influence in the literary sphere is well documented, very little has been written on his equally determining role in the evolution of the visual media unique to our times, namely, cinema and television. Dante, Cinema, and Television corrects this oversight. The essays, from a broad range of disciplines, cover the influence of the Divine Comedy from cinema's silent era on through to the era of sound and the advent of television, as well as its impact on specific directors, actors, and episodes, on national/regional cinema and television, and on genres. They also consider the different modes of appropriation by cinema and television. Dante, Cinema, and Television demonstrates the many subtle ways in which Dante's Divine Comedy has been given 'new life' by cinema and television, and underscores the tremendous extent of Dante's staying power in the modern world.
Author : Simone Marchesi
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 21,92 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1442642106
At several junctures in his career, Dante paused to consider what it meant to be a writer. The questions he posed were both simple and wide-ranging: How does language, in particular 'poetic language,' work? Can poetry be translated? What is the relationship between a text and its commentary? Who controls the meaning of a literary work? In Dante and Augustine, Simone Marchesi re-examines these questions in light of the influence that Augustine's reflections on similar issues exerted on Dante's sense of his task as a poet. Examining Dante's life-long dialogue with Augustine from a new point of view, Marchesi goes beyond traditional inquiries to engage more technical questions relating to Dante's evolving ideas on how language, poetry, and interpretation should work. In this engaging literary analysis, Dante emerges as a versatile thinker, committed to a radical defence of poetry and yet always ready to rethink, revise, and rewrite his own positions on matters of linguistics, poetics, and hermeneutics.
Author : Teodolinda Barolini
Publisher : Fordham Medieval Studies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,83 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780823222711
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Author : Giuseppe Mazzotta
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 47,99 MB
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300191359
divdivA towering figure in world literature, Dante wrote his great epic poem Commedia in the early fourteenth century. The work gained universal acclaim and came to be known as La Divina Commedia, or The Divine Comedy. Giuseppe Mazzotta brings Dante and his masterpiece to life in this exploration of the man, his cultural milieu, and his endlessly fascinating works.div /DIVdivBased on Mazzotta’s highly popular Yale course, this book offers a critical reading of The Divine Comedy and selected other works by Dante. Through an analysis of Dante’s autobiographical Vita nuova, Mazzotta establishes the poetic and political circumstances of The Divine Comedy. He situates the three sections of the poem—Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise—within the intellectual and social context of the late Middle Ages, and he explores the political, philosophical, and theological topics with which Dante was particularly concerned./DIV/DIV/DIV
Author : Federica Coluzzi
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 10,43 MB
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1526152436
Dante beyond influence is the first study to conceptualise and historicise the hermeneutic turn in Dante reception history and Victorian cultural history, charting its development across intellectual realms, agents and forms of readerly and writerly engagement. Unearthing previously unseen manuscript and print evidence, the book conducts a material and book-historical inquiry into the formation and popularisation of the critical and scholarly discourse on Dante through Victorian periodicals, mass-publishing, traditional and Extramural higher education. The book demonstrates that the transformation of Dante from object of amateur interest (dantophilia) to subject of systematic interpretive endeavours (dantismo) reflected paradigmatic changes in Victorian intellectual and socio-cultural history.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 14,80 MB
Release : 1907
Category :
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Author : Robert M. Durling
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 45,24 MB
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520064881
"A brilliant achievement. The range of learning is enormous, both in medieval scientific, philosophical lore and poetry and in the vast secondary literature on Dante. The authors bring the best traditions of Anglo-American formal analysis to bear upon the petrose, and produce powerful and original interpretations. . . . This will be a book that all serious readers of Dante's poetry--both of the petrose and the Comedy--will want to read."--David Quint, author of Origin and Originality in Renaissance Literature
