Dante Studies, Volume 1, Commedia
Author: Charles Southward Singleton
Publisher:
Published: 1954-12-01
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9780674192508
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Dante's Commedia
Author: Charles S. Singleton
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2019-12-01
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781421431666
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBut for Singleton, each dimension has a depth that reaches to the core and substance of Dante's poetry, so they are, in Singleton's view, elements of its structure.
Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy
Author: George Corbett
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Published: 2015-09-01
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1783741724
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from the three canticles: Inferno i, Purgatorio i and Paradiso i; Inferno ii, Purgatorio ii and Paradiso ii; etc. Although scholars have suggested before that there are correspondences between same-numbered cantos that beg to be explored, this is the first time that the approach has been pursued in a systematic fashion across the poem. This collection – to be issued in three volumes – offers an unprecedented repertoire of vertical readings for the whole poem. As the first volume exemplifies, vertical reading not only articulates unexamined connections between the three canticles but also unlocks engaging new ways to enter into core concerns of the poem. The three volumes thereby provide an indispensable resource for scholars, students and enthusiasts of Dante. The volume has its origin in a series of thirty-three public lectures held in Trinity College, the University of Cambridge (2012-2016) which can be accessed at the ‘Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy’ website.
Dante's Commedia
Author: Vittorio Montemaggi
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Published: 2010-03-15
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 026816200X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Dante's Commedia: Theology as Poetry, an international group of theologians and Dante scholars provide a uniquely rich set of perspectives focused on the relationship between theology and poetry in the Commedia. Examining Dante's treatment of questions of language, personhood, and the body; his engagement with the theological tradition he inherited; and the implications of his work for contemporary theology, the contributors argue for the close intersection of theology and poetry in the text as well as the importance of theology for Dante studies. Through discussion of issues ranging from Dante's use of imagery of the Church to the significance of the smile for his poetic project, the essayists offer convincing evidence that his theology is not what underlies his narrative poem, nor what is contained within it: it is instead fully integrated with its poetic and narrative texture. As the essays demonstrate, the Commedia is firmly rooted in the medieval tradition of reflection on the nature of theological language, while simultaneously presenting its readers with unprecedented, sustained poetic experimentation. Understood in this way, Dante emerges as one of the most original theological voices of the Middle Ages. Contributors: Piero Boitani, Oliver Davies, Theresa Federici, David F. Ford, Peter S. Hawkins, Douglas Hedley, Robin Kirkpatrick, Christian Moevs, Vittorio Montemaggi, Paola Nasti, John Took, Matthew Treherne, and Denys Turner.
Liturgical Song and Practice in Dante's Commedia
Author: Helena Phillips-Robins
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Published: 2021-04-15
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 026820070X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study explores ways in which Dante presents liturgy as enabling humans to encounter God. In Liturgical Song and Practice in Dante’s “Commedia,” Helena Phillips-Robins explores for the first time the ways in which the relationship between humanity and divinity is shaped through the performance of liturgy in the Commedia. The study draws on largely untapped thirteenth-century sources to reconstruct how the songs and prayers performed in the Commedia were experienced and used in late medieval Tuscany. Phillips-Robins shows how in the Commedia Dante refashions religious practices that shaped daily life in the Middle Ages and how Dante presents such practices as transforming and sustaining relationships between humans and the divine. The study focuses on the types of engagement that Dante’s depictions of liturgical performance invite from the reader. Based on historically attentive analysis of liturgical practice and on analysis of the experiential and communal nature of liturgy, Phillips-Robins argues that Dante invites readers themselves to perform the poem’s liturgical songs and, by doing so, to enter into relationship with the divine. Dante calls not only for readers’ interpretative response to the Commedia but also for their performative and spiritual activity. Focusing on Purgatorio and Paradiso, Phillips-Robins investigates the particular ways in which relationships both between humans and between humans and God can unfold through liturgy. Her book includes explorations of liturgy as a means of enacting communal relationships that stretch across time and space; the Christological implications of participating in liturgy; the interplay of the personal and the shared enabled by the language of liturgy; and liturgy as a living out of the theological virtues of faith, hope, and love. The book will interest students and scholars of Dante studies, medieval Italian literature, and medieval theology.
Dante's Divina Commedia
Author: Dante Alighieri
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 86
ISBN-13: 9781230260341
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 edition. Excerpt: ... CANTO XVII. V. 1.--"Like him who came to Clymene," &c. Clymene was the mother of Phaeton by Apollo. The youth had been told by one of his companions that he was not really the son of the god; who, in order to satisfy him, allowed him to drive the chariot of the Sun, with the mischievous results so well known. V. 46.--"As erst Hippolytus from Athens fled." Chased by the false accusations of Phsedra. V. 70-72.--" The place of refuge where thou first may'st dwell Shall be the mighty Lombards courtesy, Who on the Ladder bears the Eagle well." Verona; where Dante was hospitably received, on two different occasions, by the Scaligers, whose escutcheon bore an eagle on a ladder; in Italian, scala. First, in March, 1302, when he was exiled from Florence, he at once took refuge with "the mighty Lombard" at this time, Cangrande was only eleven years old, and his eldest brother, Bartolommeo, governed Verona. The second occasion was from 1314 to 1318; and it was during this sojourn that he wrote his celebrated letter to Cangrande, then in the height of his glory, dedicating the Paradiso to him, as he had already dedicated the other two parts respectively to Uguccione della Faggiola and Moroello Malaspina. In this curious letter he says that he wishes the title-page of his work to be thus: " Here begins the Commedia of Dante Alighieri, Florentine in birth, not in morals." From this time, as long as he was at Verona, he always showed each canto to Cangrande, as it was finished, before any one else saw it: and afterwards, when he went to Ravenna, he sent him the work in packets of six or eight cantos at once, till he came to the twentieth. Then, either because political differences had rather cooled his friendship for Cangrande, or from some other...
Dante Studies
Author: Charles Southward Singleton
Publisher:
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge Companion to Dante's ‘Commedia'
Author: Zygmunt G. Barański
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 1108421296
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAccessible and informative account of Dante's great Commedia: its purpose, themes and styles, and its reception over the centuries.
Dante's Masterplot and Alternative Narratives in the Commedia
Author: Nicolò Crisafi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022-02-24
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0192672150
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDante's Masterplot and Alternative Narratives in the 'Commedia' questions the familiar narrative arc at play in the writings of Dante Alighieri and opens his masterpiece to three alternative models that resist it. Dante's masterplot is the teleological trajectory by which the poet subordinates the past to the authority of a new experience. The book analyses the masterplot's workings in Dante's text and its role in the interpretation of the poem, and it documents its overwhelming success in influencing readings of the Commedia over the centuries. The volume then explores three competing narrative models that resist and counter its monopoly which are enacted by paradoxes, alternative endings and parallel lives, and the future. By focusing on these non-linear modes of storytelling and testing the limits of linear narration, the book questions critical paradigms in the scholarship of the Commedia that favour a single normative master truth, exposes their problematic authoritarian implications, and highlights the manifold poetic, theological, and ethical tensions that are often neglected due to the masterplot's influence. The new picture of a vulnerable author and open-ended text that emerges from this study thus doubles as a metacritical reflection on the state of the field. The book's impassioned argument is that, alongside established notions of his trademark plurality of linguistic registers and styles, Dante's narrative pluralism can, and should, come to play a key role in contemporary and future readings of the Commedia.
Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy
Author: George Corbett
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Published: 2017-12-04
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1783743611
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from the three canticles: Inferno i, Purgatorio i and Paradiso i; Inferno ii, Purgatorio ii and Paradiso ii; etc. Although scholars have suggested before that there are correspondences between same-numbered cantos that beg to be explored, this is the first time that the approach has been pursued in a systematic fashion across the poem. This collection in three volumes offers an unprecedented repertoire of vertical readings for the whole poem. As the first volume exemplifies, vertical reading not only articulates unexamined connections between the three canticles but also unlocks engaging new ways to enter into core concerns of the poem. The three volumes thereby provide an indispensable resource for scholars, students and enthusiasts of Dante. The volume has its origin in a series of thirty-three public lectures held in Trinity College, the University of Cambridge (2012-2016) which can be accessed at the Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy website.
