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The Inferno, by Dante / editor, Patrick Hunt.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Critical insights.
- Critical insights
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Inferno.
- Dante Alighieri.
- Inferno (Dante Alighieri).
- Physical Description:
- ix, 350 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, ©2012.
- Summary:
- Presents a collection of essays about Dante's classic tale that examines different aspects of the story. Includes chapter notes, a chronology of Dante's life, and an index.
- Contents:
- On the Inferno / Patrick Hunt
- Biography of Dante / Patrick Hunt
- The Paris review perspective / Nicole Rudick for The Paris review
- The love that moves / Robert Pogue Harrison
- The Inferno from a purgatorial (and paradisiacal) perspective / Heather Webb
- Dante's Inferno : critical reception and influence / David Lummus
- Per lo 'nferno tuo nome si spande : politics in the infernal city / Elizabeth Coggeshall
- The moral system of the Commedia and the seven capital sins / Robert Hollander
- Canto 1 : the dark wood / Wallace Fowlie
- Aeneas and Dante / David Thompson
- Dante's knowledge of Florentine history / John C. Barnes
- Nature's revenge / Francesca Guerra D'Antoni
- Canto 4 : Limbo (first circle) / Wallace Fowlie
- The portrait of Francesca : Inferno V / John Freccero
- Echoes of Andromache in Inferno X / Joseph Luzzi
- Beginning to think about Salò / Gabrielle Lesperance
- Dante's monsters in the Inferno : reimagining classical to Christian judgment / Patrick Hunt
- Canto 11 : the plan of Hell / Wallace Fowlie
- The harvest of reading : Inferno 20, 24, 26 / Alison Cornish
- Submerged meanings in Dante's similes (Inf. XXVII) / Richard H. Lansing
- Inferno 27 and the perversions of Pentecost / Glending Olson
- Resources
- Chronology of Dante's life
- Works by Dante.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George R. Fink Memorial Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Inferno, by Dante.
- ISBN:
- 9781587658389
- 1587658380
- 9781587658211
- 1587658216
- OCLC:
- 726150236
- Publisher Number:
- 40019923997
- 40019939732
- 99945215478
- Online:
- An e-book available to TCC users only.
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