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Sparks and seeds : medieval literature and its aftermath : essays in honor of John Freccero / edited by Dana E. Stewart and Alison Cornish ; with an introduction by Giuseppe Mazzotta.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Binghamton medieval and early modern studies ; 2.
- Binghamton medieval and early modern studies ; 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Criticism and interpretation.
- Dante Alighieri.
- Freccero, John.
- Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.
- Literature, Medieval.
- Italian literature--To 1400--History and criticism.
- Italian literature.
- Aesthetics, Medieval, in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 347 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2000]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- John Freccero is internationally renowned for his scholarship on Dante, Petrarch, Machiavelli, and other authors. Currently Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at New York University, he has also taught at Yale, Stanford, Cornell, and Johns Hopkins. His numerous honors include Fulbright and Guggenheim fellowships and awards from the city of Florence and the Republic of Italy. Despite the diverse expertise of their authors (fairly evenly divided between Italianists and scholars of English and Comparative Literature), all of the articles included in the volume appertain to Italian literature - from a literary analysis of Bonaventure's Itinerarium to tracing the State of Maryland's medieval Italian motto back through its English Renaissance sources. Many of the pieces are concerned with Dante directly, and several others dealing with medieval and Renaissance Italian subjects do so indirectly. Two articles are concerned with pre-modern cultural and literary implications of the history of science; the remainder trace the afterlife of medieval or Renaissance Italian motifs in modern culture. Despite the fact that the articles range from medieval scholasticism to twentieth-century cinema, this volume addresses applications of medieval and Renaissance Italian literature, influenced, above all, by the teaching and scholarship of John Freccero.
- Contents:
- Conversion to the text's terms: processes of signification in Bonaventure's Itinerarium mentis in deum / Dennis Costa
- Spirits of love: subjectivity, gender, and optics in the lyrics of Guido Cavalcanti / Dana E. Stewart
- On failing one's teachers: Dante, Virgil, and the ironies of instruction / John Kleiner
- Lectura Dantis: Inferno 30 / Jeffrey T. Schnapp
- The love that moves the sun and other stars in Dante's Hell / James Nohrnberg
- "Our bodies, our selves": the body in the Commedia / Rachel Jacoff
- Telling time in purgatory / Alison Cornish
- Dante's aesthetics of being / Warren Ginsberg
- "Are you here?": surprise in the Commedia / Peter S. Hawkins
- Solomon's song in the Divine comedy / Marguerite Chiarenza
- Tasso as Ulysses / Walter Stephens
- The debate between arms and letters in the Gerusalemme liberata / David Quint
- Representing invention: the telescope as news / Eileen Reeves
- Fatti maschii, parole femine: manly deeds, womanly words / Patricia Parker
- Desire, displacement, digression: rhetorical ramification in Giorgio Manganelli's Amore and Tutti gli errori / Rebecca West
- The Italian body politic is a woman: feminized national identity in postwar Italian film / Millicent Marcus.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 2-503-53800-2
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