Dante's Plurilingualism: Authority, Knowledge, Subjectivity

ISBN-13: 9781906540784 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 308 str.

Sara Fortuna; Manuele Gragnolati; Jurgen Trabant

Opis

Dante's conception of language is encompassed in all his works and can be understood in terms of a strenuous defense of the volgare in tension with the prestige of Latin. By bringing together different approaches, from literary studies to philosophy and history, from aesthetics to queer studies, from psychoanalysis to linguistics, this volume offers new critical insights on the question of Dante's language, engaging with both the philosophical works characterized by an original project of vulgarization, and the poetic works, which perform a new language in an innovative and self-reflexive way. In particular, Dante's Plurilingualism explores the rich and complex way in which Dante's linguistic theory and praxis both informs and reflects an original configuration of the relationship between authority, knowledge and identity that continues to be fascinated by an ideal of unity but is also imbued with a strong element of subjectivity and opens up towards multiplicity and modernity.

Spis treści

Introduction: Dante’s Plurilingualism Part I: Theories 1. Mother Tongues in the Middle Ages and Dante 2. Millena variatio: Overcoming the Horror of Variation 3. Man as a Speaking and Political Animal: A Political Reading of Dante's De vulgari eloquentia 4. Volgare e latino nella storia di Dante 5. Le idee linguistiche di Dante e il naturalismo fiorentino-toscano del Cinquecento 6. Aristotele e Dante, filosofi della variabilità  linguistica Part II: Authority 7. The Roots of Dante's Plurilingualism: 'Hybridity' and Language in the Vita nova 8. Language as a Mirror of the Soul: Guilt and Punishment in Dante's Concept of Language 9. Plurilingualism sub specie aeternitatis and the Strategies of a Minority Author Part III: Subjectivity 10. Dante's Blind Spot (Inferno XVI-XVII) 11. Trasmutabile per tutte guise': Dante in the Comedy 12. Is Ulysses Queer? The Subject of Greek Love in Inferno XV and XXVI 13. Lost for Words: Recuperating Melancholy Subjectivity in Dante's Eden 14. (In-)Corporeality, Language, Performance in Dante's Vita Nuova and Commedia 15. Dante After Wittgenstein: 'Aspetto', Language, and Subjectivity from Convivio to Paradiso

O autorze

Sara Fortuna