Dante Alighieri (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)

Table of contents

Editor's Note

Introduction
Harold Bloom

Two Kinds of Allegory
Charles S. Singleton

Figural Art in the Middle Ages
Erich Auerbach

Epic Tradition and Inferno IX
David Quint

Manfred's Wounds and the Poetics of the Purgatorio
John Freccero

Autocitation and Autobiography
Teodolinda Barolini

Infernal Metamorphoses: An Interpretation of Dante's ?Counterpass?
Kenneth Gross

The Light of Venus and the Poetry of Dante: Vita Nuova and Inferno XXVII
Giuseppe Mazzotta

The Otherworldly World of the Paradiso
Jaroslav Pelikan

Writing in Dante?s Cult of Truth from Borges to Boccaccio: Synchronicity
María Rosa Menocal

Purgatory as Paradigm: Traveling the New and Never-Before-Traveled Path of this Life/Poem
Teodolinda Barolini

Dante's Vision and the Circle of Knowledge: Imagination and Knowledge in Puragatorio XVII-XVIII
Giuseppe Mazzotta

The Strangeness of Dante: Ulysses and Beatrice
Harold Bloom

Mismapping the Underworld: Daring and Error in Dante?s ?Comedy?
John Kleiner

Dante's Interpretive Journey: Truth Through Interpretation and the Hermeneutic of Faith
William Franke

Chronology

Contributors

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index