Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 387 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
The William and Katherine Devers series in Dante and medieval Italian literature ; Volume 21 |
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William and Katherine Devers series in Dante and medieval Italian literature ; v. 21.
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Contents |
Social and cultural difference. "Only historicize": history, material culture (food, clothes, books), and the future of Dante studies -- Dante's sympathy for the other, or the non-stereotyping imagination: sexual and racialized others in the Commedia -- Contemporaries who found heterodoxy in Dante: Cecco d'Ascoli, Boccaccio, and Benvenuto da Imola on Fortuna and Inferno 7.89 -- Dante's limbo and equity of access: non-Christians, children, and criteria of inclusion and exclusion, form Inferno 4 to Paradiso 32 -- Metaphysical difference. Toward a Dantean theology of eros: form Dante's lyrics to the Paradiso -- Amicus eius: Dante and the semantics of friendship -- Paradiso and the mimesis of ideas: realism versus reality -- Dante squares the circle: textual and philosophical affinities of Monarchia and Paradiso (Solutio distinctiva in Mon. 3.4.17 and Par. 4.94-114) -- Difference as punishment or difference as pleasure: from the tower of Babel in De vulgari eloquentia to the death of Babel in Paradiso 26 -- Aristotelian disruptions 1: wealth and society. Aristotle's Mezzo, courtly Misura, and Dante's Canzone "Le doci rime": humanism, ethics, and social anxiety -- Dante and wealth, between Aristotle and Cortesia: from the moral Canzoni "Le dolci rime" and "Poscia ch'amor" through Convivio to Inferno 6 and 7 -- Aristotelian disruptions 2: love and compulsion. Archeology of the Donna Gentile: the importance of disconversion in conversion narratives -- Dante and Cecco d'Ascoli on love and compulsion: the epistle to Cino, "Io sono stato," the third heaven -- "Voi che 'ntendendo il terzo ciel movete," a dramatization of "utrum de passione in passionem possit anima transformari": conflict, compulsion, consent, conversion -- Critical philology and Italian cultural history. The case of the lost original ending of Dante's Vita nuova: more notes toward a critical philology -- Critical philology and Dante's Rime |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCOhost platform, viewed May 22, 2023) |
Subject |
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Criticism and interpretation
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SUBJECT |
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 fast |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Literary criticism
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
0268202958 |
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9780268202958 |
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9780268202927 |
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0268202923 |
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