Divine Comedies for the New Millennium

Divine Comedies for the New Millennium
Author: Ronald de Rooy
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2003
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9789053566329

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Dante for the New Millenium

Dante for the New Millenium
Author: Teodolinda Barolini
Publisher:
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2003
Genre:
ISBN:

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Dante for the New Millennium

Dante for the New Millennium
Author: Dante Society of America
Publisher: Fordham Series in Medieval Studies
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2003
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780823222728

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The twenty-five original essays in this ... book constitute both a ... survey of Dante scholarship and a detailed manifesto for ... understanding of one of the world's great poets ... The essays ... confront a range of important questions: What theories, methods, and issues are unique to Dante scholarship? How are they changing? What approaches constitute the distinctive American tradition in Dante studies, and how has this body of critical understanding taken shape? Why - and how - do we read Dante in today's global, postmodern culture? From John Ahern on the first copies of the Commedia to Peter Hawkins and Rachel Jacoff on Dante after modernism, the essays shed ... light on Dante's texts, his world, and what teachers, scholars, poets, and other readers in a wide variety of cultures and contexts make of his ... legacy.-Back cover.

Dante for the New Millennium

Dante for the New Millennium
Author: Teodolinda Barolini
Publisher: Fordham Medieval Studies
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780823222711

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Writers Reading Writers

Writers Reading Writers
Author: Robert Hollander
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2007
Genre: Literature
ISBN: 9780874139761

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This volume is a collection of intertextual studies on medieval and early modern literature in honor of Robert Hollander by some of his former students. Writers are always also readers, responding to texts that have provoked their thought. The contributors to this volume all participate in its overarching theme: writers reading and responding to the work of other writers. As Hollander's work has focused especially on Dante and Boccaccio, many of the essays treat one of these writers, either as reading or as read by others. Other essays trace intertextual influences in Langland, Shakespeare, or post-Enlightenment writers faced with the loss of Dante's meaningful cosmos.

Virgil the Blind Guide

Virgil the Blind Guide
Author: Lloyd H. Howard
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2010-02-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0773582568

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Virgil the Blind Guide examines the repetition of certain linguistic configurations that have remained hidden because the meanings of the words involved do not relate to Virgil's competence as guide. Uncovering tropes that have yet to be studied, Howard allows us to see new junctures in the poet's travels, while highlighting Virgil's impotence and diminishing his authority as regards other poets, guides, and the demons of Hell's lower gate. The concealed route revealed by Dante's figurative signposts establishes Virgil's traits as foundational to the poem and allows for new perspectives and understandings of this critical character. Using this distinctive strategy, Virgil the Blind Guide helps us to piece together the complex puzzle that is Dante's pagan guide and suggests new ways of understanding important characters that are applicable to a broad range of poetry and prose.

Queer Italia: Same-Sex Desire in Italian Literature and Film

Queer Italia: Same-Sex Desire in Italian Literature and Film
Author: G. Cestaro
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2004-07-22
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1403982597

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Queer Italia gathers essays on Italian literature and film, medieval to modern. The volume's chronological organization reflects its intention to define a queer tradition in Italian culture. While fully cognizant of the theoretical risks inherent in trans-historicizing sexuality, the contributors to this volume share an interest in probing the multi-form dynamics of sexual desires in Italian texts through the centuries. The volume aims not to promote the mistaken notion of a single homosexuality through history. Rather, these essays together upset and undo the equally misguided assumption of an omnipresent heterosexuality through time by uncovering the various, complex workings of desire in texts from all periods. Somewhat paradoxically, a kind of queer canon results. These essays open a much-needed critical space in the Italian tradition wherein fixed definitions of sexual identity collapse. Queer Italia is the first and only work of its kind in Italian criticism. As such, it will be of interest to a wide audience of Italianists, medieval to modern, and queer cultural theorists.

Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A-J

Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A-J
Author: Gaetana Marrone
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 2258
Release: 2007
Genre: Italian literature
ISBN: 1579583903

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Sexuality in Medieval Europe

Sexuality in Medieval Europe
Author: Ruth Mazo Karras
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2023-04-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000859274

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Now in its fourth edition, Sexuality in Medieval Europe provides a lively account of a society whose attitudes toward sexuality both were ancestral to, and differed from, contemporary ones. The volume is structured not by types of sexual interactions or deviance, but to reflect the difference in gendered experiences when sex is seen as an act one person does to another. Sexual activity, within and outside of marriage, as well as sexual inactivity, had different meanings based on gender, social status, religious affiliation, and more. This book considers these iterations of medieval sexuality in its effort to show there was no single medieval attitude towards sexuality. With an emphasis on Christian Western Europe over the entire course of the Middle Ages, it also includes comparative material on neighboring cultures at the time. Alongside being reworked for further clarity and readability, the fourth edition offers substantial new material on trans scholarship and methodological attempts to recoup a trans past; changes in the treatment of sex work and its terminology; and new material on Byzantine and Muslim culture. Sexuality in Medieval Europe is an essential resource for all those who study medieval history, medieval culture, and the history of sexuality in Europe.

Dante's Plurilingualism

Dante's Plurilingualism
Author: Sara Fortuna
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1351570196

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Dante's conception of language is encompassed in all his works and can be understood in terms of a strenuous defence of the volgare in tension with the prestige of Latin. By bringing together different approaches, from literary studies to philosophy and history, from aesthetics to queer studies, from psychoanalysis to linguistics, this volume offers new critical insights on the question of Dantes language, engaging with both the philosophical works characterized by an original project of vulgarization, and the poetic works, which perform a new language in an innovative and self-reflexive way. In particular, Dantes Plurilingualism explores the rich and complex way in which Dantes linguistic theory and praxis both informs and reflects an original configuration of the relationship between authority, knowledge and identity that continues to be fascinated by an ideal of unity but is also imbued with a strong element of subjectivity and opens up towards multiplicity and modernity.