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Divine Dialectic: Dante's Incarnational Poetry (Toronto Italian Studies) by Guy P. Raffa is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In This Book, Guy Raffa Offers A Fresh Reading Of Dante's Major Literary Works - The Divine Comedy And The Vita Nuova - That Combines Central Tenets Of Incarnational Theology And Dialectical Thought To Illuminate The Poet's Renowned Ability To 'have It Both Ways' On Issues That Conventionally Elicit An 'either/or' Response. Viewing Dante As A Poet Of Revision, Not Conversion, Raffa Challenges A Dominant Paradigm In Dante Criticism And Takes Full Account Of The Poet's Unconventional Approach To Such Conventional Dichotomies As Eros And Spirituality, Fame And Humility, Action And Contemplation, And Obedience And Transgression. Divine Dialectic Ultimately Argues That Dante Crosses Textual And Theological Boundaries In His Medieval Epic To Promote The Paradoxical Union Of Contradiction And Resolution As A Way Of Reading His Poem And, By Extension, The World Itself.--jacket. Introduction: Dante's Incarnational Dialectic -- Divisive Dialectic: Incarnational Failure And Parody -- Incarnation Manque In The Vita Nuova -- Dante's Infernal Web Of Pride -- Incarnational Dialectic Writ Large -- Incarnational (dis) Appearances: Virgil And Beatrice -- Dialectically Marked Spirits In The Shadowed

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Author

Guy P. Raffa

Publisher

University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781442673984

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, Romance