Dante's Masterplot and Alternative Narratives in the Commedia

ISBN-13: 9780192857675 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 208 str.

Nicolo (Research and Teaching Fellow in Italian and Director

Recenzje

Crisafi calls into question the teleological reading of the Commedia by pointing out alternative paths of interpretation. These alternative ways exist alongside the authoritative voice of the masterplot and end up cracking it and enriching the understanding of Dante's pluralism today.

O autorze

Nicolò Crisafi is a Research and Teaching Fellow in Italian and Director of Modern Languages at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. He has published on medieval Italian literature with a focus on the works of Dante Alighieri. He engages in research on narrative theory, the role of the reader, the relation between language, affect, and vulnerability, and the intersection between narrative forms and worldviews. His current project on possibility and the utopian imagination, developed as a fellow of ICI Berlin (2018-2020), investigates narratives of possibility and their political implications in the late middle ages.