Dante's Vita Nuova and the New Testament: Hermeneutics and the Poetics of Revelation

ISBN-13: 9781316516171 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 280 str.

William Franke

Opis

A vivid reimagining of the Vita nuova as a revolution in poetry and a revelation of divine destiny through love.

Recenzje

'Professor Franke's original, tightly argued study makes a significant contribution to the reappraisal of Dante's youthful masterpiece by offering, at once, a fresh translation and a well-rounded interpretation. Dante's Vita Nuova and the New Testament is to be welcomed for its concern to present Dante's libello to an Anglophone readership, as it offers a global interpretation of the Vita nuova at the crossroad between Biblical and philosophical traditions.' Giuseppe Ledda, Università di Bologna

Spis treści

1. Introduction: The Vita nuova as Theological Revelation through Lyrical Interpretation; 2. The New Testament Model of Salvific Reminiscence; 3. From Appearing and Imagining to Revealing through Interpreting: The Vita nuova's Hermeneutics of Witness; 4. Phenomenology versus Hermeneutics (Debate with Harrison): Revelation as Mediation; 5. History of Effect and a New Hermeneutics-Oriented Critical Paradigm; Picture Album; 6. Conclusion. The Existential Grounding of Revelation in Lyric; Coda; Epilogue: Dream Epistemology and Religious Revelation in Dante's Vita nuova; Appendix: Italian Text and English Translation of the Vita nuova.