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Dante Now: Current Trends in Dante Studies (William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature) (William and Katherine ... in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature, 1) by Theodore J. Cachey Jr. (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Written by ten distinguished Dante scholars, the essays in Dante Now represent the most significant areas of contemporary Dante studies. This collection, originating from a 1993 University of Notre Dame conference, includes some of the particular on three intensely cultivated areas of Dante studies: poetics,'minor works,'and reception.The stimulating ferment on the problem of Dante's poetics is well represented in the first three essays. These range in approach from the stylistic-ideological treatment of Zygmunt G. Baranski's essay to the inter-and intra-textual concerns presented by Christopher Kleinhenz, to the compelling hermeneutical and epistemological reflections on Dante's poetics given by Giuseppe Mazzotta. Dante's so-called'minor works'have increasingly become a focus of attention in contemporary Dante studies, and the textual problems represented by the Vita nuova are sweepingly reconsidered by Dino S. Cervigni and Edward Vasta. Ronald L. Martinez dedicates a substantial essay to Dante's poem of exile'Tre donne,'and Albert Russell Ascoli addresses the issue of the relationship between Dante's Commedia and the minor works, especially the Monarchia. The final section of ess

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Author
Theodore J. Cachey Jr. (editor)
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Published
1995
Language
EN
ISBN
9780268055516
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, History

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