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Dante's tears: the poetics of weeping from Vita nuova to the Commedia / Rossana Fenu Barbera.
Van Pelt Library PQ4432.C79 F46 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fenu Barbera, Rossana, 1956- author.
- Series:
- Biblioteca dell'"Archivum Romanicum." Storia, letteratura, paleografia ; Serie I, v. 468.
- Biblioteca dell'"Archivum Romanicum." Serie I: Storia, letteratura, paleografia ; 468
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Criticism and interpretation.
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia.
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Vita nuova.
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
- Crying in literature.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 204 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Firenze : Leo S. Olschki editore, 2017.
- Language Note:
- In English; Dante's text appears in Italian with English translation.
- Summary:
- "Dante's Tears proves a poetics of weeping relevant to Dante's poetry in coincidence with his theological interests celebrated in the Commedia, and seeded in Vita Nuova. It reveals an untold story of Dante and Beatrice, and allows a new code of communication, the key of a hermeneutics of Dante's text that embraces as a whole religion, politics, physiology, and the poet's own concerns on matters such as desire and love."--Front flap.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-201) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9788822265067
- 8822265068
- OCLC:
- 1005734621
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