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The syntax of desire : language and love in Augustine, the Modistae, Dante / Elena Lombardi.
LIBRA P156 .L64 2007
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lombardi, Elena.
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430--Language.
- Augustine.
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Language.
- Dante Alighieri.
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
- Speculative grammar.
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Paradiso.
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Inferno.
- Desire in literature.
- Love in literature.
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 380 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2007]
- Language Note:
- Includes some text in Italian and Latin.
- Contents:
- 1 Augustine: The Syntax of the Word 22
- The Semiotic Universe of Mankind: Augustine's 'Theory of Things' 27
- The Performative Universe of God 37
- Time and the Syllable 47
- The Syntax of Love and Desire in Speech and Universe 52
- The Analogy 58
- Love, Desire, and the Interior Word 66
- 2 Modistae: The Syntax of Nature 77
- The Modistae 81
- Grammar and the System of Knowledge 85
- Reality, Mind, Language 95
- The Parts of Speech: Permanence and Becoming 101
- Syntax and Desire 108
- 3 Dante: The Syntax of Poetry 121
- Heavenly Refutations 123
- The Pros and Cons of Babel 134
- Language and Languages: The Parallel Episodes of Inferno 26-27 and Paradiso 15-17 140
- A Map of Language 145
- A Map of Desire 160
- Language, Desire, and the Poem 168
- 'I am afraid we are not rid of God, because we still have faith in grammar' 176
- Desidero, ergo sum 193.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [357]-375) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780802090706
- 0802090702
- OCLC:
- 137231128
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