Dante's work has fascinated readers for seven hundred years and has provided key reference points for writing as diverse as that of Chaucer to Pound. In this volume, Jeremy Tambling has selected ten recent essays from the mass of Dante studies, and put the Divine Comedy - Dante's record of a journey to Hell, Purgatory and Paradise - into context for the modern reader. Topics such as Dante's allegory, his relationship to classical and modern poetry, his treatment of love and of sexuality, his attitudes to Florence and to his contemporary Italy, are explored and clarified through a selection of work by some of the best scholars in the field. An introduction and notes help the reader to situate the criticism, and to relate it to contemporary literary theory.
Dante's work has fascinated readers for seven hundred years and has provided key reference points for writing as diverse as that of Chaucer to Pound. In this volume, Jeremy Tambling has selected ten recent essays from the mass of Dante studies, and put the Divine Comedy - Dante's record of a journey to Hell, Purgatory and Paradise - into context for the modern reader. Topics such as Dante's allegory, his relationship to classical and modern poetry, his treatment of love and of sexuality, his attitudes to Florence and to his contemporary Italy, are explored and clarified through a selection of work by some of the best scholars in the field. An introduction and notes help the reader to situate the criticism, and to relate it to contemporary literary theory.
General Editors' Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Dante and Modern Criticism
1. KENELM FOSTER, An Intoduction to the 'Inferno'
2. RICARDO J. QUINONES, 'Inferno': Fame and Children
3. RACHEL JACOFF, Transgression and Transcendence: Figures of
Female Desire in Dante's 'Commedia'
4. PIERO BOITANI, Shipwreck: Interpretation and Alterity
5. TEODOLINDA BAROLINI, Bertan de Born and Sordello: The Poetry of
Politics in Dante's 'Comedy'
6. JEREMY TAMBLING, "Nostro Paccato Fu Ermafrodito": Dante and the
Moderns
7. JOHN FRECCERO, An Introduction to the 'Paradiso'
8. GIUSEPPE MAZZOTTA, Theology and Exile
9. PETER DRONKE, The Conclusion of Dante's 'Commedia'
10. ZYGMUNT G. BARANSKI, "Significar per verba": Notes on Dante and
Plurilingualism
Glossary of Terms
Chronology
Suggestions for Further Reading
Professor Jeremy Tambling
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