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Author Masciandaro, Franco

Title Dante as Dramatist : the Myth of the Earthly Paradise and Tragic Vision in the "Divine Comedy" / Franco Masciandaro
Published Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
©1991

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Contents Frontmatter -- Content -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. The Prologue: The Nostalgia for Eden and the Rediscovery of the Tragic -- II. The Garden of the Ancient Poets -- III. The Paradise of Paolo and Francesca and the Negation of the Tragic -- IV. The Recovery of the Way to Eden: Rites of Expulsion and Reconciliation in Purgatorio I -- V. The Garden of the Negligent Princes -- VI. The Earthly Paradise and the Recovery of Tragic Vision -- Works Cited -- Index -- Backmatter
Summary In Dante as Dramatist, Masciandaro refocuses on the "poetry of the theater" in the Commedia by examining Dante's interpretation of the myth of the Earthly Paradise as it is represented in key episodes of Inferno and Purgatorio
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Dec. 09, 2016)
Subject Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia.
SUBJECT Divina commedia (Dante Alighieri) fast
Subject Eden in literature.
Tragic, The, in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
Eden in literature
Tragic, The, in literature
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781512809510
1512809519