Poetry in Dialogue in the Duecento and Dante

ISBN-13: 9780198849575 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 240 str.

David Bowe

Recenzje

Dante's poetics and his relationships with literary precursors are thematised throughout the Commedia. Bowe maintains that even when Dante lavishes praise on another poet, it is always with ulterior motives, correcting and surpassing his model.

O autorze

David Bowe works on medieval Italian culture and its reception, with a particular focus on Dante, the lyric tradition, dialogue, gender, and voice. He completed his DPhil at the University of Oxford in 2014 with a thesis on dialogic modes of self-representation in medieval Italian verse. While studying at Oxford he was awarded the Senior Paget Toynbee Prize for essays in Dante Studies. He was a visiting fellow at the Leeds Humanities Research Institute in 2014, Victoria Maltby Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford from 2015 to 2018, and retained lecturer in Italian at Pembroke College Oxford from 2017 to 2018. In 2018, he was awarded an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship to work at University College Cork.