Dante and the Mystical Tradition

Dante and the Mystical Tradition
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 285
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ISBN-10 : 9780521434546
ISBN-13 : 0521434548
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis Dante and the Mystical Tradition by : Steven Botterill

Reinterpretation of the significance of the figure of St Bernard in Dante's Commedia.

Dante and Medieval Latin Traditions

Dante and Medieval Latin Traditions
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Publisher : CUP Archive
Total Pages : 172
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ISBN-10 : 0521379601
ISBN-13 : 9780521379601
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Dante and Medieval Latin Traditions by : Peter Dronke

Peter Dronke explores 'The Divine Comedy' by exploring the medieval Latin traditions of Dante's era.

Dante's Commedia

Dante's Commedia
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Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Total Pages : 400
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ISBN-10 : 9780268162009
ISBN-13 : 026816200X
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Dante's Commedia by : Vittorio Montemaggi

In Dante's Commedia: Theology as Poetry, an international group of theologians and Dante scholars provide a uniquely rich set of perspectives focused on the relationship between theology and poetry in the Commedia. Examining Dante's treatment of questions of language, personhood, and the body; his engagement with the theological tradition he inherited; and the implications of his work for contemporary theology, the contributors argue for the close intersection of theology and poetry in the text as well as the importance of theology for Dante studies. Through discussion of issues ranging from Dante's use of imagery of the Church to the significance of the smile for his poetic project, the essayists offer convincing evidence that his theology is not what underlies his narrative poem, nor what is contained within it: it is instead fully integrated with its poetic and narrative texture. As the essays demonstrate, the Commedia is firmly rooted in the medieval tradition of reflection on the nature of theological language, while simultaneously presenting its readers with unprecedented, sustained poetic experimentation. Understood in this way, Dante emerges as one of the most original theological voices of the Middle Ages. Contributors: Piero Boitani, Oliver Davies, Theresa Federici, David F. Ford, Peter S. Hawkins, Douglas Hedley, Robin Kirkpatrick, Christian Moevs, Vittorio Montemaggi, Paola Nasti, John Took, Matthew Treherne, and Denys Turner.

Guido Cavalcanti

Guido Cavalcanti
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 0802035914
ISBN-13 : 9780802035912
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis Guido Cavalcanti by : Maria Luisa Ardizzone

Cavalcanti's work is interpreted by reconstructing the debate of ideas in which it participates, and the new model of poetry devised by Cavalcanti is one of the subjects of this book."--BOOK JACKET.

Dante's Divine Comedy

Dante's Divine Comedy
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Publisher : Angelico Press
Total Pages : 515
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ISBN-10 : 9781621387480
ISBN-13 : 1621387488
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis Dante's Divine Comedy by : Mark Vernon

Dante Alighieri was early in recognizing that our age has a problem. His hometown, Florence, was at the epicenter of the move from the medieval world to the modern. He realized that awareness of divine reality was shifting, and that if it were lost, dire consequences would follow. The Divine Comedy was born in a time of troubling transition, which is why it still speaks today. Dante's masterpiece presents a cosmic vision of reality, which he invites his readers to traverse with him. In this narrative retelling and guide, from the gates of hell, up the mountain of purgatory, to the empyrean of paradise, Mark Vernon offers a vivid introduction and interpretation of a book that, 700 years on, continues to open minds and change lives.

The Metaphysics of Dante's Comedy

The Metaphysics of Dante's Comedy
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 321
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ISBN-10 : 9780195372588
ISBN-13 : 0195372581
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis The Metaphysics of Dante's Comedy by : Christian Moevs

The recovery of Dante's metaphysics-which are very different from our own-is essential, argues Christian Moevs, if we are to resolve what has been called 'the central problem in the interpretation of the Comedy.' That problem is what to make of the Comedy's claim to the status of revelation, vision, or experiential record - as something more than imaginative literature. In this book Moevs offers the first sustained treatment of the metaphysical picture that grounds and motivates the Comedy, and the relation between those metaphysics and Dante's poetics. Moevs arrives at the radical conclusion that Dante believed that all of what we perceive as reality, the spatio-temporal world, is in fact a creation or projection of conscious being. Armed with this new understanding, Moevs is able to shed light on a series of perennial issues in the interpretation of the Comedy.

Dante Encyclopedia

Dante Encyclopedia
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 2067
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ISBN-10 : 9781136849718
ISBN-13 : 1136849718
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Dante Encyclopedia by : Richard Lansing

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.

Dante and the Franciscans

Dante and the Franciscans
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 238
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ISBN-10 : 0521833051
ISBN-13 : 9780521833059
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Dante and the Franciscans by : N. R. Havely

Nicholas Havely examines the connections between Dante, the Franciscans and the Papacy as they appear in the Commedia, and presents the poem as one concerned with an often dramatic confrontation between authority and idealism in the church. Havely draws on a wide range of literary, historical and art historical sources relating to the controversy about Franciscan poverty during the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. He argues that the Spiritual Franciscans' strict interpretations of evangelical poverty provided the poet with a means of addressing the state of the contemporary Papacy and of imagining the renewal of the church. He also explores the origins and afterlife of the debate about this form of poverty and Dante's contribution to it. This study will appeal to scholars interested in medieval religious and intellectual history, as well as to readers of Dante's poem and other medieval visionary and political writing.

The Oxford Handbook of Dante

The Oxford Handbook of Dante
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 778
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ISBN-10 : 9780198820741
ISBN-13 : 0198820747
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Dante by : Manuele Gragnolati

The Oxford Handbook of Dante contains forty-four specially written chapters that provide a thorough and creative reading of Dante's oeuvre. It gathers an intergenerational and international team of scholars encompassing diverse approaches from the fields of Anglo-American, Italian, and continental scholarship and spanning several disciplines: philology, material culture, history, religion, art history, visual studies, theory from the classical to the contemporary, queer, post- and de-colonial, and feminist studies. The volume combines a rigorous reassessment of Dante's formation, themes, and sources, with a theoretically up-to-date focus on textuality, thereby offering a new critical Dante. The volume is divided into seven sections: 'Texts and Textuality'; 'Dialogues'; 'Transforming Knowledge'; Space(s) and Places'; 'A Passionate Selfhood'; 'A Non-linear Dante'; and 'Nachleben'. It seeks to challenge the Commedia-centric approach (the conviction that notwithstanding its many contradictions, Dante's works move towards the great reservoir of poetry and ideas that is the Commedia), in order to bring to light a non-teleological way in which these works relate amongst themselves. Plurality and the openness of interpretation appear as Dante's very mark, coexisting with the attempt to create an all-encompassing mastership. The Handbook suggests what is exciting about Dante now and indicate where Dante scholarship is going, or can go, in a global context.

Reading Dante

Reading Dante
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Publisher : Lexington Books
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9780739159941
ISBN-13 : 0739159941
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Reading Dante by : Jesper Hede

Reading Dante: The Pursuit of Meaning examines the problem of thematic coherence in Dante's Divina Commedia. Unlike many Dante scholars who maintain that the poem's unity is the account of a journey through the afterworld, Jesper Hede argues that a systematic parallel reading of the poem's three parts (Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise) reveals that it is the vision of divine order that provides the poem with its thematic unity.