Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy is a literary-historical study of the many surprising ways in which Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy have assumed a position of importance in African American culture. Dennis Looney examines how African American authors have read, interpreted, and responded to Dante and his work from the late 1820s to the present.
In many ways, the African American reception of Dante follows a recognizable narrative of reception: the Romantic rehabilitation of the author; the...
Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy is a literary-historical study of the many s...
In Interpreting Dante: Essays on the Traditions of Dante Commentary, Paola Nasti and Claudia Rossignoli gather essays by prominent scholars of the Dante commentary tradition to discuss the significance of this tradition for the study of the Comedy, its broad impact on the history of ideas, and its contribution to the development of literary criticism. Interest in the Dante commentary tradition has grown considerably in recent years, but projects on this subject tend to focus on philological reconstructions. The contributors shift attention to the interpretation of texts,...
In Interpreting Dante: Essays on the Traditions of Dante Commentary, Paola Nasti and Claudia Rossignoli gather essays by prominent scholars of ...
Reexamines Dante's relation to his contemporary public, an audience that included those poets who responded to Dante's early work as well as the readers who first copied, preserved, and circulated his poetry. Based on original research of manuscripts and documents, Justin Steinberg's study reveals in particular the importance of professional, urban classes as cultivators of early Italian poetry.
Reexamines Dante's relation to his contemporary public, an audience that included those poets who responded to Dante's early work as well as the reade...
The second volume in the original William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies, The Fiore in Context is the record of a milestone in the study of the Fiore, and perhaps in Dante studies: the international conference on the Fiore held at St. John's College, Cambridge, in September 1994.
The second volume in the original William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies, The Fiore in Context is the record of a milestone in the study...
Through medieval interpretations of Dante's sources, Marc Cogan discovers a single consistent moral and theological principle organising each of the sections of the poem and its overall narrative. He argues that, using one common principle, Dante brings the separate allegories of the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso together into one great allegory.
Through medieval interpretations of Dante's sources, Marc Cogan discovers a single consistent moral and theological principle organising each of the s...
Gathers essays by prominent scholars of the Dante commentary tradition to discuss the significance of this tradition for the study of the Comedy, its broad impact on the history of ideas, and its contribution to the development of literary criticism. The contributors examine how Dante commentators developed interpretative paradigms that contributed to the advancement of literary criticism.
Gathers essays by prominent scholars of the Dante commentary tradition to discuss the significance of this tradition for the study of the Comedy, its ...
