Vertical readings in Dante's Comedy. Volume 2 / edited by George Corbett and Heather Webb.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Corbett, George, editor.

Webb, Heather, 1976- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia--Criticism, Textual.

Dante Alighieri.

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, 2016.

Summary:

Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from the three canticles: Inferno i, Purgatorio i and Paradiso i; Inferno ii, Purgatorio ii and Paradiso ii; etc. Although scholars have suggested before that there are correspondences between same-numbered cantos that beg to be explored, this is the first time that the approach has been pursued in a systematic fashion across the poem.This collection - to be issued in three volumes - offers an unprecedented repertoire of vertical readings for the whole poem. As the first volume exemplifies, vertical reading not only articulates unexamined connections between the three canticles but also unlocks engaging new ways to enter into core concerns of the poem. The three volumes thereby provide an indispensable resource for scholars, students and enthusiasts of Dante.The volume has its origin in a series of thirty-three public lectures held in Trinity College, the University of Cambridge (2012-2016) which can be accessed at the Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy website

Contents:

Introduction / George Corbett and Heather Webb

Centaurs, spiders and saints / Christian Moevs

Would you Adam and Eve it? / Robert Wilson

The patterning of history : poetry, politics and Adamic renewal / Catherine M. Keen

Dante's fatherlands / Simone Marchesi

Politics of desire / Manuele Gragnolati

Seductive lies, unpalatable truths, alter egos / Tristan Kay

Women, war and wisdom / Anne C. Leone

Inside out / Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja

Prediction, prophecy and predistination : eternalising poetry in the Commedia / Claudia Rossignoli

God's beloved : from pitch, through script, to writ / Corinna Salvadori Lonergan

Truth, autobiography and the poetry of salvation / Giuseppe Ledda.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781783742561

1783742569

9781783742554

1783742550

OCLC:

969041672

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access