The Oxford handbook of Dante / edited by Manuele Gragnolati, Elena Lombardi, and Francesca Southerden.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gragnolati, Manuele, editor.

Lombardi, Elena, editor.

Southerden, Francesca, 1979- editor.

Series:

Oxford handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.

Criticism and interpretation.

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

Dante Alighieri.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxxv, 741 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

The Oxford Handbook of Dante contains forty-four specially written chapters that provide a thorough and creative reading of Dante's oeuvre. It gathers an intergenerational and international team of scholars encompassing diverse approaches from the fields of Anglo-American, Italian, and continental scholarship and spanning several disciplines: philology, material culture, history, religion, art history, visual studies, theory from the classical to the contemporary, queer, post- and de-colonial, and feminist studies. The volume combines a rigorous reassessment of Dante's formation, themes, and sources, with a theoretically up-to-date focus on textuality, thereby offering a new critical Dante. The volume is divided into seven sections: 'Texts and Textuality'; 'Dialogues'; 'Transforming Knowledge'; Space(s) and Places'; 'A Passionate Selfhood'; 'A Non-linear Dante'; and 'Nachleben'. It seeks to challenge the Commedia-centric approach (the conviction that notwithstanding its many contradictions, Dante's works move towards the great reservoir of poetry and ideas that is the Commedia), in order to bring to light a non-teleological way in which these works relate amongst themselves. Plurality and the openness of interpretation appear as Dante's very mark, coexisting with the attempt to create an all-encompassing mastership. The Handbook suggests what is exciting about Dante now and indicate where Dante scholarship is going, or can go, in a global context."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

I Texts and Textuality

1 The Author p. 3 / Justin Steinberg

2 Memory p. 17 / Lina Bolzoni

3 Reading p. 34 / Mary Carruthers

4 The Materiality of the Text and Manuscript Culture p. 49 / Martin Eisner

5 The Manuscript Tradition, or on Editing Dante p. 63 / Fabio Zinelli

6 Commentary (both by Dante and on Dante) p. 79 / Luca Fiorentini

7 Digital Dante p. 96 / Akash Kumar

II Dialogues

8 The Classics p. 111 / Zygmunt G. Baranski

9 Roman de la Rose p. 127 / Antonio Montefusco

10 Troubadours p. 142 / William Burgwinkle

11 Early Italian Lyric p. 158 / Roberto Rea

12 Comic Culture p. 173 / Fabian Alfie

13 Visual Culture p. 188 / Gervase Rosser

III Transforming Knowledge

14 Encyclopaedism p. 211 / Franziska Meier

15 Medicine p. 227 / Natascia Tonelli

16 Visual Theory p. 242 / Simon Gilson

17 The Law p. 257 / Diego Quaglioni

18 Politics p. 270 / Tristan Kay

19 Philosophy and Theology p. 287 / Pasquale Porro

20 Religion p. 302 / Alessandro Vettori

21 Poetry p. 318 / Elena Lombardi

IV Space(s) and Places

22 Florence and Rome p. 337 / Giuliano Milani

23 Civitas/Community p. 353 / Elisa Brilli

24 The Mediterranean p. 368 / Karla Mallette

25 The East p. 383 / Brenda Deen Schildgen

26 Exile p. 399 / Johannes Bartuschat

27 Travelling/Wandering/Mapping p. 415 / Theodore J. Cachey, Jr

28 Dante's Other Worlds p. 431 / Peter S. Hawkins

V A Passionate Selfhood

29 Eschatological Anthropology p. 447 / Manuele Gragnolati

30 Language p. 464 / Heather Webb

31 The Mystical p. 480 / Bernard McGinn

32 Bodies on Fire p. 494 / Cary Howie

VI A Non-Linear Dante

33 The Master Narrative and its Paradoxes p. 513 / Nicolò Crisafi

34 Conversion, Palinody, Traces p. 529 / Jennifer Rushworth

35 The Lyric Mode p. 546 / Francesca Southerden

36 Errancy: A Brief History of Dante's Ferm Voler p. 563 / Teodolinda Barolini

VII Nachleben

37 Translations p. 583 / Martin McLaughlin

38 Dante and the Performing Arts p. 602 / Rossend Arqués Corominas

39 Dante on Screen p. 619 / John David Rhodes

40 Modernist Dante p. 634 / Daniela Caselli

41 Dante and the Shoah p. 651 / Lino Pertile

42 Dante in Caribbean Poetics: Language, Power, Race p. 668 / Jason Allen-Paisant

43 Queering Dante p. 686 / Gary Cestaro

44 A Decolonial Feminist Dante: Imperial Historiography and Gender p. 701 / Marguerite Waller.

Notes:

Series title from jacket flap.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780198820741

0198820747

OCLC:

1201661389