Dante's Masterplot and Alternative Narratives in the Commedia
Nicolò Crisafi, "Dante's Masterplot and Alternative Narratives in the Commedia "
English | ISBN: 0192857673 | 2022 | 208 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 0192857673 | 2022 | 208 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Dante's Masterplot and Alternative Narratives in the 'Commedia' questions the familiar narrative arc at play in the writings of Dante Alighieri and opens his masterpiece to three alternative models that resist it. Dante's masterplot is the teleological trajectory by which the poet subordinates
the past to the authority of a new experience. The book analyses the masterplot's workings in Dante's text and its role in the interpretation of the poem, and it documents its overwhelming success in influencing readings of the Commedia over the centuries. The volume then explores three competing
narrative models that resist and counter its monopoly which are enacted by paradoxes, alternative endings and parallel lives, and the future. By focusing on these non-linear modes of storytelling and testing the limits of linear narration, the book questions critical paradigms in the scholarship of
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