Dante and Augustine
Title | Dante and Augustine PDF eBook |
Author | Simone Marchesi |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | 273 |
Release | 2011-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1442642106 |
At several junctures in his career, Dante paused to consider what it meant to be a writer. The questions he posed were both simple and wide-ranging: How does language, in particular 'poetic language,' work? Can poetry be translated? What is the relationship between a text and its commentary? Who controls the meaning of a literary work? In Dante and Augustine, Simone Marchesi re-examines these questions in light of the influence that Augustine's reflections on similar issues exerted on Dante's sense of his task as a poet. Examining Dante's life-long dialogue with Augustine from a new point of view, Marchesi goes beyond traditional inquiries to engage more technical questions relating to Dante's evolving ideas on how language, poetry, and interpretation should work. In this engaging literary analysis, Dante emerges as a versatile thinker, committed to a radical defence of poetry and yet always ready to rethink, revise, and rewrite his own positions on matters of linguistics, poetics, and hermeneutics.
Dante Studies
Title | Dante Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Paget Jackson Toynbee |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 366 |
Release | 1921 |
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Dante Studies, with the Annual Report of the Dante Society
Title | Dante Studies, with the Annual Report of the Dante Society PDF eBook |
Author | Dante Society of America |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 210 |
Release | 2006 |
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Understanding Dante
Title | Understanding Dante PDF eBook |
Author | John Alfred Scott |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 512 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
"In Understanding Dante, Scott goes beyond simply explaining Dante's works and provides a detailed discussion of the medieval poet's writings. John A. Scott has given readers a comprehensive account of Dante's work that will be useful to new readers and Dante scholars alike. It contains a helpful chronology of the events in the poet's life and a short glossary of poetic forms." --Magill Book Reviews
Dante Studies
Title | Dante Studies PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 802 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Dante for the New Millennium
Title | Dante for the New Millennium PDF eBook |
Author | Teodolinda Barolini |
Publisher | Fordham Medieval Studies |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780823222711 |
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Annual report [afterw.] Dante studies, with the Annual report. First (-Eighth).
Title | Annual report [afterw.] Dante studies, with the Annual report. First (-Eighth). PDF eBook |
Author | Dante society of America |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 444 |
Release | 1882 |
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