The Cambridge Companion to Dante

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Cambridge University Press, 1993 M04 29 - 270 páginas
Unlike many recent "companions" that seek to rewrite and revise traditional scholarship--e.g., The Cambridge Companion to Dostoevskii, ed. by W.J. Leatherborrow (CH, Mar'03, 40-3897)--the second edition of the present title (first ed., 2003) remains a bastion of authoritative scholarship and sound criticism. Jacoff (Wellesley College) adds to the original 14 essays (all of which have been updated) three new contributions. The essays center on five principal areas of Dante scholarship: Dante's early works and their relationship to the Divine Comedy; vernacular and classical literary antecedents of Dante's poetry; theological and biblical influences; historical and political dimensions of the works; and reception history. The volume opens with Giuseppe Mazzotta's brilliantly concise and decisive "Life of Dante," as useful a brief introduction to the subject as can be imagined, and it features introductory essays on each of the three canticles of the Comedy, offering insightful readings of important textual practices and critical background information. In keeping with the breadth of Dante scholarship and the limited format of the series, most of the essays include suggested further reading, and an entire section provides information about translations, Web sites, secondary works, and various other aids to the study of Dante and his world.

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Contenido

Life of Dante
1
Dante and the lyric past
14
Approaching the Vita nuova
34
The unfinished author Dantes rhetoric of authority in Convivio and De vulgari eloquentia
45
Dante and the empire
67
Dante and Florence
80
Dante and the classical poets
100
Dante and the Bible
120
A poetics of chaos and harmony
153
Introduction to Inferno
172
Introduction to Purgatorio
192
Shadowy prefaces an introduction to Paradiso
208
Dante and his commentators
226
Dante in English
237
Further reading
259
Index
261

The theology of Dante
136

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Acerca del autor (1993)

Rachel Jacoff is Professor of Italian at Wellesley College.

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