Reading Course Dante

Author : Giuseppe Mazzotta
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300191356

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Reading Dante by Giuseppe Mazzotta Pdf

divdivA towering figure in world literature, Dante wrote his great epic poem Commedia in the early fourteenth century. The work gained universal acclaim and came to be known as La Divina Commedia, or The Divine Comedy. Giuseppe Mazzotta brings Dante and his masterpiece to life in this exploration of the man, his cultural milieu, and his endlessly fascinating works.div /DIVdivBased on Mazzotta’s highly popular Yale course, this book offers a critical reading of The Divine Comedy and selected other works by Dante. Through an analysis of Dante’s autobiographical Vita nuova, Mazzotta establishes the poetic and political circumstances of The Divine Comedy. He situates the three sections of the poem—Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise—within the intellectual and social context of the late Middle Ages, and he explores the political, philosophical, and theological topics with which Dante was particularly concerned./DIV/DIV/DIV

Author : Prue Shaw
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780871407801

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Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity by Prue Shaw Pdf

The best and most eloquent introduction to Dante for our time. Prue Shaw is one of the world's foremost authorities on Dante. Written with the general reader in mind, Reading Dante brings her knowledge to bear in an accessible yet expert introduction to his great poem. This is far more than an exegesis of Dante’s three-part Commedia. Shaw communicates the imaginative power, the linguistic skill and the emotional intensity of Dante’s poetry—the qualities that make the Commedia perhaps the greatest literary work of all time and not simply a medieval treatise on morality and religion. The book provides a graphic account of the complicated geography of Dante's version of the afterlife and a sure guide to thirteenth-century Florence and the people and places that influenced him. At the same time it offers a literary experience that lifts the reader into the universal realms of poetry and mythology, creating links not only to the classical world of Virgil and Ovid but also to modern art and poetry, the world of T. S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney and many others. Dante's questions are our questions: What is it to be a human being? How should we judge human behavior? What matters in life and in death? Reading Dante helps the reader to understand Dante’s answers to these timeless questions and to see how surprisingly close they sometimes are to modern answers. Reading Dante is an astonishingly lyrical work that will appeal to both those who’ve never read the Commedia and those who have. It underscores Dante's belief that poetry can change human lives.

Author : United States. Office of Education. Home education division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Best books
ISBN : UOM:39015033614499

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Reading Course: Dante by United States. Office of Education. Home education division Pdf

Author : Joseph Tusiani
Publisher : Legas / Gaetano Cipolla
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781881901297

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Dante's Divine Comedy by Joseph Tusiani Pdf

A prose retelling of Dante's poem about a journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise.

Author : Christopher Kleinhenz,Kristina Olson
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : Giuseppe Mazzotta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1162307993

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Reading Dante by Giuseppe Mazzotta Pdf

Author : Joe Lee
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781934389683

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Dante For Beginners by Joe Lee Pdf

Dante For Beginners takes the reader on a trip starting in hell and ending in heaven. The reader gets a quick introduction to Dante and his times. Next, the reader meets a sweet lass named Beatrice and samples a bit of his other literary offerings, such as the great feast, the Convivio. But then it’s on to the big one, the Commedia, and a canto by canto description of the entire work. Characters, ideas and situations are described as they happen—no searching through end notes, footnotes or field notes to distinguish Forese Donati, Dante’s pal, from his evil brother, Corso. The entire plan of the hereafter is simply mapped out. Dante For Beginners is a great vacation with history’s greatest tourist, Dante Alighieri.

Author : George Corbett,Heather Webb
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783742561

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

This collection – to be issued 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 : United States. Office of Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105216815501

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Home Education Reading Course by United States. Office of Education Pdf

Author : Mark Vernon
Publisher : Angelico Press
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781621387480

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Dante's Divine Comedy by Mark Vernon Pdf

Dante Alighieri was early in recognizing that our age has a problem. His hometown, Florence, was at the epicenter of the move from the medieval world to the modern. He realized that awareness of divine reality was shifting, and that if it were lost, dire consequences would follow. The Divine Comedy was born in a time of troubling transition, which is why it still speaks today. Dante's masterpiece presents a cosmic vision of reality, which he invites his readers to traverse with him. In this narrative retelling and guide, from the gates of hell, up the mountain of purgatory, to the empyrean of paradise, Mark Vernon offers a vivid introduction and interpretation of a book that, 700 years on, continues to open minds and change lives.

Author : John Freccero
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Education
ISBN : 0674192265

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Dante by John Freccero Pdf

[The essays] are arranged to follow the order of the "Comedy," and they form the perfect companion for a reader of the poem. Throughout Freccero operates on the fundamental premise that there is always an intricate and crucial dialectic at work between Dante the poet and Dante the pilgrim. -- from cover.

Author : Allen Mandelbaum,Anthony Oldcorn,Charles Ross
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520920538

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Lectura Dantis, Inferno by Allen Mandelbaum,Anthony Oldcorn,Charles Ross Pdf

The California Lectura Dantis is the long-awaited companion to the three-volume verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum of Dante's Divine Comedy. Mandelbaum's translation, with facing original text and with illustrations by Barry Moser, has been praised by Robert Fagles as "exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths," and by the late James Merrill as "lucid and strong . . . with rich orchestration . . . overall sweep and felicity . . . and countless free, brilliant, utterly Dantesque strokes." Charles Simic called the work "a miracle. A lesson in the art of translation and a model (an encyclopedia) for poets. The full range and richness of American English is displayed as perhaps never before." This collection of commentaries on the first part of the Comedy consists of commissioned essays, one for each canto, by a distinguished group of international scholar-critics. Readers of Dante will find this Inferno volume an enlightening and indispensable guide, the kind of lucid commentary that is truly adapted to the general reader as well as the student and scholar.

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:8596547670513

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The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri Pdf

The Divine Comedy is widely considered to be the preeminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of world literature. The narrative describes Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise or Heaven, while allegorically the poem represents the soul's journey towards God. Dante draws on medieval Christian theology and philosophy where the poet Virgil is presented as human reason and Beatrice is presented as divine knowledge. Thus, this edition brings to you the annotated translation of the Divine Comedy by Henry Francis Cary for a pleasant enjoyment of the world's greatest classic.

Author : Christian Moevs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,6 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 : Guy P. Raffa
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226702685

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Danteworlds by Guy P. Raffa Pdf

One of the greatest works of world literature, Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy has, despite its enormous popularity and importance, often stymied readers with its multitudinous characters, references, and themes. But until now, students of the Inferno have lacked a suitable resource to guide their reading. Welcome to Danteworlds, the first substantial guide to the Inferno in English. Guy P. Raffa takes readers on a geographic journey through Dante’s underworld circle by circle—from the Dark Wood down to the ninth circle of Hell—in much the same way Dante and Virgil proceed in their infernal descent. Each chapter—or “region”—of the book begins with a summary of the action, followed by detailed entries, significant verses, and useful study questions. The entries, based on a close examination of the poet’s biblical, classical, and medieval sources, help locate the characters and creatures Dante encounters and assist in decoding the poem’s vast array of references to religion, philosophy, history, politics, and other works of literature. Written by an established Dante scholar and tested in the fire of extensive classroom experience, Danteworlds will be heralded by readers at all levels of expertise, from students and general readers to teachers and scholars.