Dante's vision and the circle of knowledge / Giuseppe Mazzotta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mazzotta, Giuseppe, 1942- author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia.

Dante Alighieri.

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

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Knowledge and learning.

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 pages).

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1993]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

In a masterly synthesis of historical and literary analysis, Giuseppe Mazzotta shows how medieval knowledge systems--the cycle of the liberal arts, ethics, politics, and theology--interacted with poetry and elevated the Divine Comedy to a central position in shaping all other forms of discursive knowledge. To trace the circle of Dante's intellectual concerns, Mazzotta examines the structure and aims of medieval encyclopedias, especially in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries; the medieval classification of knowledge; the battle of the arts; the role of the imagination; the tension between knowledge and vision; and Dante's theological speculations in his constitution of what Mazzotta calls aesthetic, ludic theology. As a poet, Dante puts himself at the center of intellectual debates of his time and radically redefines their configuration. In this book, Mazzotta offers powerful new readings of a poet who stands amid his culture's crisis and fragmentation, one who responds to and counters them in his work. In a critical gesture that enacts Dante's own insight, Mazzotta's practice is also a fresh contribution to the theoretical literary debates of the present.Originally published in 1992.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOTE ON DANTE'S TEXTS

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1. Poetry and the Encyclopedia

Chapter 2. Sacrifice and Grammar

Chapter 3. The Light of Venus

Chapter 4. Metaphor and Justice

Chapter 5. Logic and Power

Chapter 6. Imagination and Knowledge

Chapter 7. The Dream of the Siren

Chapter 8. Language and Vision

Chapter 9. Theology and Exile

Chapter 10. Order and Transgression

Chapter 11. Theologia Ludenus

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-315) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-691-63698-2

0-691-60853-9

1-4008-6304-X

OCLC:

889251287