Dante Now: Current Trends in Dante Studies (William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature
Theodore J. Cachey Jr., "Dante Now: Current Trends in Dante Studies (William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature"
English | ISBN: 0268008795 | | 306 pages | PDF | 23 MB
English | ISBN: 0268008795 | | 306 pages | PDF | 23 MB
Written by ten distinguished Dante scholars, the essays in Dante Now represent the most significant areas of contemporary Dante studies. This collection, originating from a 1993 University of Notre Dame conference, includes some of the particular on three intensely cultivated areas of Dante studies: poetics, "minor works,"and reception.
The stimulating ferment on the problem of Dante's poetics is well represented in the first three essays. These range in approach from the stylistic-ideological treatment of Zygmunt G. Baranski's essay to the inter-and intra-textual concerns presented by Christopher Kleinhenz, to the compelling hermeneutical and epistemological reflections on Dante's poetics given by Giuseppe Mazzotta. Dante's so-called "minor works" have increasingly become a focus of attention in contemporary Dante studies, and the textual problems represented by the
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