Dante now : current trends in Dante studies / edited by Theodore J. Cachey, Jr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cachey, T. J. (Theodore J.)

University of Notre Dame.

Series:

William and Katherine Devers series in Dante studies ; v. 1.

The William and Katherine Devers series in Dante studies ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Criticism and interpretation--Congresses.

Dante Alighieri.

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 283 pages).

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press, [1995]

System Details:

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

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Summary:

Written by ten distinguished Dante scholars, the essays in Dante Now represent the most significant areas of contemporary Dante studies. This collection, originating from a 1993 University of Notre Dame conference, includes some of the newest and most exciting work in contemporary Dante studies and focuses in particular on three intensely cultivated areas: poetics, "minor works", and reception. The stimulating ferment on the problem of Dante's poetics is well represented in the first three essays. These range in approach from the stylistic-ideological treatment of Zygmunt G. Baranski's essay, to the inter- and intratextual concerns presented by Christopher Kleinhenz, to the compelling hermeneutical and epistemological reflections on Dante's poetics given by Giuseppe Mazzotta. Dante's so-called minor works have increasingly become a focus of attention in contemporary Dante studies, and the textual problems represented by the Vita nuova are sweepingly reconsidered by Dino S. Cervigni and Edward Vasta. Ronald L. Martinez dedicates a substantial essay to Dante's poem of exile "Tre donne", and Albert Russell Ascoli addresses the issue of the relationship between Dante's Commedia and the minor works, especially the Monarchia. The final section of essays examines the phenomenon of the original and continuing vitality of Dante's work as a profoundly influential, enduring, and enlivening literary classic. R. A. Shoaf addresses the literary influence of Dante in medieval England; Kevin Brownlee investigates Dante's most important medieval French connection in the works of Christine de Pizan; and Brian Richardson considers the Commedia's fortunes during the Renaissance in terms of its remarkableeditorial and publishing history. Finally, Nancy J. Vickers illuminates Dante's translatability into avante garde films and videos.

Contents:

Poetics of meter : Terza rima, "canto," "canzon," "cantica" / Zygmunt G. Baranski

Dante and the art of citation / Christopher Kleinhenz

Why did Dante write the Comedy? Why and how do we read it? The poet and the critics / Giuseppe Mazzotta

From manuscript to print : the case of Dante's Vita nuova / Dino S. Cervigni and Edward Vasta / "Nasce il Nilo" : justice, wisdom, and Dante's canzone "Tre donne intorno al cor mi son venute" / Ronald L. Martinez

Palinode and history in the Oeuvre of Dante / Albert Russell Ascoli

"Noon Englissh Digne" : Dante in late medieval England / R.A. Shoaf

Literary genealogy and the problem of the Father : Christine de Pizan and Dante / Kevin Brownlee

Editing Dante's Commedia, 1472-1629 / Brian Richardson

Dante in the video decade / Nancy J. Vickers.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Dante now.

ISBN:

0268055513

9780268055516

OCLC:

604786860

Publisher Number:

10.2307/j.ctvpg86p3

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.