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A South African Convivio with Dante : born frees' interpretations of the Commedia / edited by Sonia Fanucchi, Anita Virga.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studi e saggi (Florence, Italy)
- Studi e saggi
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
- Dante Alighieri.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (203 pages).
- Other Title:
- South African Convivio with Dante
- Place of Publication:
- Firenze : Firenze University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- This book offers a collection of South African university students' written responses to the Commedia and scholars' commentary on them. The students' collection includes writings of all genres and subjects: prose, poetry, personal reflection, dialogue, non-fiction based on the first two cantiche of the Commedia. Some are autobiographical and others are fictional stories, but they all have in common a very personal (and South African) approach to Dante's text. The scholarly essays of the second part are concerned with the unusual way in which Dante is appreciated by our youth: not as a remote figure only encountered in the hallways of the literature department, but as an intimate presence, a guide, a friend whose language is familiar and invites a response.
- Contents:
- Foreword
- 9
- Foreword
- 11
- Reading Dante in South Africa
- 13
- Part I
- 25
- Earthy Paradise and Liminal Thresholds in Dantes Purgatorio
- 27
- A Mad Flight Into Inferno Once Again The Party
- 31
- A Mad Flight Into Inferno Once Again Canto XIII Now Smells Like Roses
- 37
- A Mad Flight Into Inferno Once Again The Dream or The Ghost of Ulysses
- 41
- My Dantesque Ulyssean Return to the Commedia
- 83
- A Tree In Hell
- 89
- Part II
- 95
- Dante Can I Lead You? South African students write back across seven centuries and a hemisphere
- 97
- Reading La Commedia in PostApartheid South Africa
- 105
- Dantes Purgatorio Breaks the Chains of the Born Frees
- 117
- The Influence of the Comedy in three South African Writings
- 131
- The Unattainable South African Paradise
- 143
- A Mad Flight Into Inferno Once Again Eating John Vorster
- 45
- The Storm
- 51
- The Lodestone
- 63
- A praise poem inspired by Francesca da Rimini
- 69
- Beatrice
- 73
- Yet I had not discovered you
- 79
- Dantes Ulysses Reinvented
- 153
- Dimitri Tsafendas Meets Dante Friend and Witness of Our Time
- 169
- Notes on the writings by the University of the Witwatersrand students of Dante
- 179
- Kai Lötters art work
- 197
- Scholars Biographies
- 201.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Firenze University Press, viewed May 15, 2023).
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