Dante S Drama Of The Mind

Author : Francis Fergusson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400877119

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Dante's Drama of the Mind by Francis Fergusson Pdf

The individual insights employed in this reading of the Purgatorio are those of a twentieth-century mind, as are the author's references: T. S. Eliot, Henry James, I.A. Richards, Jacques Maritain, and many others. Purposely avoiding the pitfalls of Dantean scholarship, Mr. Fergusson reveals the drama of the order of Dante’s vision, the developed form of the poetry, and the meaning of the canticle for modern man. "The Purgatorio," he says, “has light to shed upon history and its making; upon psychology, ethics, and education; upon politics and the transmission of our tradition. There are many reasons for learning to read it; it is a central clue.” This brilliantly written book by the author of The Idea of a Theater is itself a central clue to the meaning of the Purgatorio. Originally published in 1953. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Francis Fergusson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:637603953

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Dante's Drama of the Mind ; a Modern Reading of the Purgatorio by Francis Fergusson Pdf

Author : Ernest L. Fortin
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 073910327X

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Dissent and Philosophy in the Middle Ages by Ernest L. Fortin Pdf

Dissent and Philosophy in the Middle Ages offers scholars of Dante's Divine Comedy an integral understanding of the political, philosophical, and religious context of the medieval masterwork. First penned in French by Ernest L. Fortin, one of America's foremost thinkers in the fields of philosophy and theology, Dissidence et philosophie au moyen-%ge brings to light the complexity of Dante's thought and art, and its relation to the central themes of Western civilization. Available in English for the first time through this superb translation by Marc A. LePain, Dissent and Philosophy will make a supremely important contribution to the discussion of Dante as poet, theologian, and philosopher.

Author : Rachel Jacoff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521844307

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The Cambridge Companion to Dante by Rachel Jacoff Pdf

A fully updated 2007 edition of this useful and accessible coursebook on Dante's works, context and reception history.

Author : Christian Moevs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195372588

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The Metaphysics of Dante's Comedy by Christian Moevs Pdf

Moevs offers a treatment of the metaphysical picture that grounds and motivates 'The Divine Comedy', and the relation between those metaphysics and Dante's poetics. He arrives at the conclusion that Dante believed that all of what we perceive as reality is in fact a creation or projection of conscious being.

Author : U. Limentani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1965-01-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521055604

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The Mind of Dante by U. Limentani Pdf

Originally published in 1965, these seven essays reproduce the lectures that were delivered in Cambridge to mark the seventh centenary of the birth of Dante.

Author : Robert M. Durling
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003-04-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780198024828

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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri by Robert M. Durling Pdf

In the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri set out to write the three volumes which make the up The Divine Comedy. Purgatorio is the second volume in this set and opens with Dante the poet picturing Dante the pilgrim coming out of the pit of hell. Similar to the Inferno (34 cantos), this volume is divided into 33 cantos, written in tercets (groups of 3 lines). The English prose is arranged in tercets to facilitate easy correspondence to the verse form of the Italian on the facing page, enabling the reader to follow both languages line by line. In an effort to capture the peculiarities of Dante's original language, this translation strives toward the literal and sheds new light on the shape of the poem. Again the text of Purgatorio follows Petrocchi's La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata, but the editor has departed from Petrocchi's readings in a number of cases, somewhat larger than in the previous Inferno, not without consideration of recent critical readings of the Comedy by scholars such as Lanza (1995, 1997) and Sanguineti (2001). As before, Petrocchi's punctuation has been lightened and American norms have been followed. However, without any pretensions to being "critical", the text presented here is electic and being not persuaded of the exclusive authority of any manuscript, the editor has felt free to adopt readings from various branches of the stemma. One major addition to this second volume is in the notes, where is found the Intercantica - a section for each canto that discusses its relation to the Inferno and which will make it easier for the reader to relate the different parts of the Comedy as a whole.

Author : Jeremy Tambling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317883371

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Dante by Jeremy Tambling Pdf

Dante's work has fascinated readers for seven hundred years and has provided key reference points for writing as diverse as that of Chaucer, the Renaissance poets, the English Romantics, Tennyson and the Pre-Raphaelites, American writers from Melville through to Eliot and Pound, Anglo-Irish Modernists from Joyce to Beckett, and contemporary poets such as Heaney and Walcott. In this volume, Jeremy Tambling has selected ten recent essays from the mass of Dante studies, and put the Divine Comedy - Dante's record of a journey to Hell, Purgatory and Paradise - into context for the modern reader. Topics such as Dante's allegory, his relationship to classical and modern poetry, his treatment of love and of sexuality, his attitudes to Florence and to his contemporary Italy, are explored and clarified through a selection of work by some of the best scholars in the field. An introduction and notes help the reader to situate the criticism, and to relate it to contemporary literary theory. In this anthology, Dante's relevance to both English and Italian literature is highlighted, and the significance of Dante for poetry in English is illuminated for the modern reader. This book provides students of English literature and Italian literature with the most comprehensive collection of important critical studies of Dante to date.

Author : George Corbett,Heather Webb
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783743612

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Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy by George Corbett,Heather Webb Pdf

Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from the three canticles: Inferno i, Purgatorio i and Paradiso i; Inferno ii, Purgatorio ii and Paradiso ii; etc. Although scholars have suggested before that there are correspondences between same-numbered cantos that beg to be explored, this is the first time that the approach has been pursued in a systematic fashion across the poem. This collection in three volumes offers an unprecedented repertoire of vertical readings for the whole poem. As the first volume exemplifies, vertical reading not only articulates unexamined connections between the three canticles but also unlocks engaging new ways to enter into core concerns of the poem. The three volumes thereby provide an indispensable resource for scholars, students and enthusiasts of Dante. The volume has its origin in a series of thirty-three public lectures held in Trinity College, the University of Cambridge (2012-2016) which can be accessed at the Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy website.

Author : David Dean Brockman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315464206

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A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Dante's The Divine Comedy by David Dean Brockman Pdf

David Dean Brockman connects spirituality with psychoanalysis throughout this book as he looks at Dante’s early writings, his life story and his "polysemous" classical poem The Divine Comedy. Dante wanted to create a document that would educate the common man about his journey from brokenness to growth and a solid integration of body, self, and soul. This book draws the resemblance between Dante’s poem and the "journey" that patients experience in psychoanalytic therapy. It will be the first total treatment of Dante’s work in general, and The Divine Comedy in particular, using the psychoanalytic method. This fascinating study of Dante’s The Divine Comedy will be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and psychiatrists, as well as those still in training. Academics and students of psychology, spirituality, religion, and literature may also be interested in Brockman’s in-depth study of Dante’s work.

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0192835025

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The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri Pdf

A new blank verse translation of Dante's epic, complete with an authoritative Introduction, diagrams, maps, and notes.

Author : Jay Ruud
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Dante Alighieri
ISBN : 9781438108414

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Critical Companion to Dante by Jay Ruud Pdf

Dante Alighieri is one of the greatest poets in world history. His brilliant epic, "The Divine Comedy", an imagined journey through Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory, continues to captivate readers. This work provides an information on his life and work. It covers Dante's canon, including his love poems in "La Vita Nuova" and his philosophical works.

Author : Christopher Kleinhenz,Kristina Olson
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603294287

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Approaches to Teaching Dante's Divine Comedy by Christopher Kleinhenz,Kristina Olson Pdf

Dante's Divine Comedy can compel and shock readers: it combines intense emotion and psychological insight with medieval theology and philosophy. This volume will help instructors lead their students through the many dimensions--historical, literary, religious, and ethical--that make the work so rewarding and enduringly relevant yet so difficult. Part 1, "Materials," gives instructors an overview of the important scholarship on the Divine Comedy. The essays of part 2, "Approaches," describe ways to teach the work in the light of its contemporary culture and ours. Various teaching situations (a first-year seminar, a creative writing class, high school, a prison) are considered, and the many available translations are discussed.

Author : Franco Masciandaro
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781512809510

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Dante as Dramatist by Franco Masciandaro Pdf

The overwhelming concentration on questions of allegory in Dante studies, Franco Masciandaro contends, has come at the expense of considerations of the poem's literal dimension. And while the dramatic quality of the Divine Comedy is often recognized, few critics have made it the object of sustained inquiry. In Dante as Dramatist, Masciandaro refocuses on the "poetry of the theater" in the Commedia by examining Dante's interpretation of the myth of the Earthly Paradise as it is represented in a number of key episodes of Inferno and Purgatorio. His principal objective is twofold: to analyze Dante's dramaturgy, especially the creative force of the tragic rhythm that the scenes under scrutiny produce as they succeed one another; and to show how Dante stages the action of the pilgrim's journey to the Earthly Paradise as the fundamental conflict between the dream of a future, second innocence, which ignores the tact of evil, and the recovery of another innocence, analogous to that found in Eden before the Fall. Dante as Dramatist will be of unique interest not only to students and scholars of Dante but also to those who study dramatic forms in literature and theories of the tragic.

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101573822

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The Portable Dante by Dante Alighieri Pdf

The famed Italian poet Dante Alighieri’s two masterworks—The Divine Comedy and La Vita Nuova—in one volume A Penguin Classic As a philosopher, he wedded classical methods of inquiry to a Christian faith. As an autobiographer, he looked unsparingly at his own failures to depict universal struggles. As a visionary, he dared draw maps of Hell, with Purgatory and Paradise, and populate all three realms with recognizable human beings. As a passionate lover, he became a poet of bereavement and renunication. As all of these, Dante Alighieri paved the way for modern literature, while creating verse and prose that remain unparalleled for formal elegance, intellectual depth, and emotional grandeur. The Portable Dante captures the scope and fire of Dante’s genius as thoroughly as any single volume can. It contains complete verse translations of The Divine Comedy and La Vita Nuova, as well as a bibliography, notes, and an introduction by the eminent scholar and translator Mark Musa. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.