The Cambridge Companion to DanteRachel Jacoff This 2007 second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Dante is designed to provide an accessible introduction to Dante for students, teachers and general readers. The volume was fully updated and includes three new essays on Dante's works. The suggestions for further reading now include secondary works and translations as well as online resources. The essays cover Dante's early works and their relation to the Commedia, his literary antecedents, both vernacular and classical, biblical and theological influences, the historical and political dimensions of Dante's works, and their reception. In addition there are introductory essays to each of the three canticles of the Commedia that analyse their themes and style. This edition will ensure that the Companion continues to be the most useful single volume for new generations of students of Dante. |
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... poet also greatly heightens our interest in him. Yet none of these reasons truly accounts for what must be called ... poets have so quickly entered the domain of myth that they leave readers doubtful about the very reality of their ...
... poet also greatly heightens our interest in him. Yet none of these reasons truly accounts for what must be called ... poets have so quickly entered the domain of myth that they leave readers doubtful about the very reality of their ...
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... poetic vocation? What did “to be a poet” mean to him and to those around him? These questions have not been altogether ignored by biographers, but, right from the early biographies of Dante to those written in the last few years, they ...
... poetic vocation? What did “to be a poet” mean to him and to those around him? These questions have not been altogether ignored by biographers, but, right from the early biographies of Dante to those written in the last few years, they ...
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... poet (accompanied, as happens in hagiographies, by an omen, such as the mother's prophetic dream). The two rhetorical strands converge in the central, exalted, narrative of the poet's fated growth and of the splendor of his imagination ...
... poet (accompanied, as happens in hagiographies, by an omen, such as the mother's prophetic dream). The two rhetorical strands converge in the central, exalted, narrative of the poet's fated growth and of the splendor of his imagination ...
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... poetic temper seemed too partial an invention (much like, Bruni says wryly, the Filocolo or the Filostrato or even the Fiammetta). Bruni found Boccaccio's intimation of the poet's necessary disengagement from the responsibilities of the ...
... poetic temper seemed too partial an invention (much like, Bruni says wryly, the Filocolo or the Filostrato or even the Fiammetta). Bruni found Boccaccio's intimation of the poet's necessary disengagement from the responsibilities of the ...
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... poet? One would expect this sort of question to be asked by a biographer in the mold of, say, Boccaccio. A sober-minded biographical narrative of the life of Dante, however, would be expected to focus on ascertained, objective events of ...
... poet? One would expect this sort of question to be asked by a biographer in the mold of, say, Boccaccio. A sober-minded biographical narrative of the life of Dante, however, would be expected to focus on ascertained, objective events of ...
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