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Dante's Commedia Elements of Structure / Charles S. Singleton.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Singleton, Charles S. (Charles Southward), 1909-1985., author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Technique.
Rhetoric, Medieval.
Divina commedia (Dante Alighieri).
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Technique.
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia.
Genre:
Electronic books.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 online resource (viii, 98 pages))
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Johns Hopkins University Press
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Originally published in 1977. This book contains four essays by Professor Charles Singleton: "Allegory," "Symbolism," "The Pattern at the Center," and "The Substance of Things Seen." These four essays treat four dimensions of meaning essential to understanding the substance and special texture of the poetry of the Divine Comedy. One might speak of "facets" or "aspects" of meaning if such terms did not suggest surface reflections dependent on the way a work (as a jewel) is turned for inspection. But for Singleton, each dimension has a depth that reaches to the core and substance of Dante's poetry, so they are, in Singleton's view, elements of its structure.
Contents:
Allegory
Symbolism
The pattern at the center
The substance of things seen
The two kinds of allegory.
Notes:
Originally published in ©1954, reprint 1977.
Reprint of the edition published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., which was issued as the author's Dante studies, 1.
Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on print version record.
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
0-8018-2003-0
1-4214-3166-1
OCLC:
1123889765

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