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The Cambridge companion to Dante's Commedia

Title
The Cambridge companion to Dante's Commedia / edited by Zygmunt G. Barański (University of Cambridge and University of Notre Dame), Simon Gilson (University of Oxford).
Publication
  • Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
  • ©2019

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Additional Authors
  • Barański, Zygmunt G.
  • Gilson, Simon A.
Description
xxi, 306 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm
Summary
"This newly commissioned volume presents a focused overview of Dante's masterpiece, the Commedia, offering readers of today wide-ranging insights into the poem and its core features. Leading scholars discuss matters of structure, narrative, language and style, characterization, doctrine, and politics, in chapters that make their own contributions to Dante criticism by raising problems and questions that call for renewed attention, while investigating contextual concerns as well as the current state of criticism about the poem. The Commedia is also placed in a variety of cultural and historical contexts through accounts of the poem's transmission and reception that explore both its contemporary influence and its continuing legacy today. With its accessible approach, its unstinting focus on the poem and its attention to matters that have not always received adequate critical assessment, this volume will be of value to all students and scholars of Dante's great poem."--Publisher's description
Subjects
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-284) and indexes.
Contents
Introduction / Zygmunt G. Barański and Simon Gilson -- Narrative structure / Lino Pertile -- Dante Alighieri, Dante-poet, Dante-character / Giuseppe Ledda -- Characterization / Laurence E. Hooper -- Moral structure / George Corbett -- Title, genre, metaliterary aspects / Theodore J. Cachey, Jr. -- Language and style / Mirko Tavoni -- Allegories of the corpus / James C. Kriesel -- Classical culture / Simone Marchesi -- Vernacular literature and culture / Tristan Kay -- Religious culture / Paola Nasti -- Doctrine Simon Gilson -- Politics / Claire E. Honess -- Genesis, dating, and Dante's 'other works' / Zygmunt G. Barański -- Transmission history / Prue Shaw -- Early reception until 1481 / Anna Pegoretti -- Later reception from 1481 to the present / Fabio Camilletti.
Call Number
JFE 19-4160
ISBN
  • 9781108421294
  • 1108421296
  • 9781108431705
  • 1108431704
LCCN
2018042044
OCLC
1050455637
Title
The Cambridge companion to Dante's Commedia / edited by Zygmunt G. Barański (University of Cambridge and University of Notre Dame), Simon Gilson (University of Oxford).
Publisher
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Copyright Date
©2019
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-284) and indexes.
Added Author
Barański, Zygmunt G., editor.
Gilson, Simon A., editor.
Research Call Number
JFE 19-4160
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