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Dante and the origins of Italian literary culture /
Explores the sources of Italian literary culture in the figures of its lyric poets and its 'three crowns': Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. This book views the origins of Italian literary culture through four prisms: the ideological/philosophical, the intertextual/multicultural, the structu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2006.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Dante and the lyric past-- Guittone's Ora parrá, Dante's Doglia mi reca, and the Commedia's anatomy of desire-- Dante and Cavalcanti (on making distinctions in matters of love) : Inferno 5 in its lyrics and autobiographical context-- Medieval multiculturalism and Dante's technology of hell-- Why did Dante write the Commedia? Dante and the visionary tradition-- Minos's tail : the labor of devising hell (Aeneid 6.431-33 and Inferno 5.1-24)-- Q : Does Dante hope for Vergil's salvation? A : Why do we care? For the very reason we should not ask the question-- Arachne, Argus, and St. John : transgressive art in Dante and Ovid-- Cominciandomi dal principio infino a la fine : forging anti-narrative in the Vita nuova-- The making of a lyric sequence : time and narrative in Petrarch's Rerum vulgarium fragmenta-- The wheel of the Decameron-- Editing Dante's Rime and Italian cultural history : Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarca ... Barbi, Contini, Foster-Boyde, De Robertis-- Le parole son femmine e i fatti son maschi : toward a sexual poetics of the Decameron (Decameron 2.9, 2.10, 5.10)-- Dante and Francesca da Rimini : realpolitik, romance, gender-- Sotto benda : gender in the lyrics of Dante and Guittone d' Arezzo (with a brief excursus on Cecco d'Ascoli)-- Notes toward a gendered history of Italian literature, with a discussion of Dante's Beatrix Loquax.