Dante, artist of gesture / Heather Webb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Webb, Heather, 1976- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gesture in literature.

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia.

Dante Alighieri.

Divina commedia (Dante Alighieri).

Genre:

Literary criticism.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

A new approach to reading Dante's 'La Comedia Divinia' through the lens of art history. 'Dante, Artist of Gesture' brings Dante's canonical text into conversation with the visual art of his time to suggest the importance of visual cues to the reading and interpretation of the text itself.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Illustrations

Editions and Translations

Introduction: Viewing and Reading Gesture

1. Reading Bodies in Motion

2. Dante as Visual Artist

3. Fixity and Flexibility

4. Modelling Gestural Virtues in Dante's Purgatorio

5. Asymmetrical Affections

6. Heavenly Proximities and Contagions

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 2, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Webb, Heather Dante, Artist of Gesture

ISBN:

0-19-195920-0

0-19-269262-3

0-19-269261-5