Dante''s Lyric Redemption - Eros, Salvation, Vernacular Tradition

Zusatztext A successful attempt at bringing together some key critical trends associated with modern Dante studies ... Kay engages with one of the oldest debates in the field, that surrounding Dante's dialogue with his vernacular contemporaries, without losing sight of recent scholarly developments from around the world. Informationen zum Autor Tristan Kay specializes in medieval Italian culture, with a particular focus on Dante and early lyric poetry. He graduated from the University of Leeds with a BA in Italian and Spanish in 2005 and remained at Leeds to complete an MA by Research on Dante and the troubadours in 2006. In 2010 he received his doctorate from the University of Oxford, writing a thesis on the relationship between eros, spirituality and vernacular language in Dante. The thesis received the Society of Italian Studies Postgraduate Prize and Oxford's Senior Paget Toynbee Prize. From 2010 to 2012, he held a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Dartmouth College, USA, and since 2012 he has been Lecturer in Italian at the University of Bristol. He is an Associate Editor of the journal Italian Studies. Klappentext Dante's Lyric Redemption uses Dante's relationship to some important Italian and Provencal writers of his time to highlight his radical and distinctive handling of the relationship between erotic love and salvation. Zusammenfassung Dante's Lyric Redemption uses Dante's relationship to some important Italian and Provencal writers of his time to highlight his radical and distinctive handling of the relationship between erotic love and salvation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part One: Dante's Poetics of Integration 1: Love, Authority, and Vernacular Poetry 2: Dante's Commedia between Dualism and Integration Part Two: Negotiating Precursors 3: Guittone d'Arezzo 4: Arnaut Daniel 5: Folco of Marseilles Conclusion

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Tristan Kay
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 21.01.2016
• EAN: 9780198753964
• ISBN: 978-0-19-875396-4
• Seiten: 288
• Serien: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs; Oxford Modern Languages & Lite; Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Italian, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets