Dante, the Divine comedy / Robin Kirkpatrick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kirkpatrick, Robin, 1943- author.

Series:

Landmarks of world literature.

Landmarks of world literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia.

Dante Alighieri.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 118 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this accessible critical introduction to Dante's Divine Comedy Robin Kirkpatrick principally focuses on Dante as a poet and storyteller. He addresses important questions such as Dante's attitude towards Virgil, and demonstrates how an early work such as the Vita nuova is a principal source of the literary achievement of the Comedy. His detailed reading reveals how the great narrative poem explores the relationship that Dante believed to exist between God as creator of the universe and the human being as a creature of God. In addition, Kirkpatrick takes due account of the historical and philosophical dimensions of the poem.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chronology; Chapter 1: Approaches to The Divine Comedy; Chapter 2: Change, vision and language: the early works and Inferno Canto Two; Chapter 3: The Divine Comedy; Chapter 4: After Dante; Guide to further reading

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Guide to further reading": p. 115-118.

ISBN:

1-107-14880-4

1-283-32911-5

0-511-16533-1

9786613329110

0-511-80473-3

0-511-16581-1

0-511-16388-6

0-511-56675-1

0-511-16468-8

OCLC:

560103618