The Cambridge Companion to Dante

Informationen zum Autor Rachel Jacoff is Margaret Deffenbaugh and LeRoy Carlson Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies at Wellesley College. Klappentext A fully updated new edition of this useful and accessible coursebook on Dante's works! context and reception history. Zusammenfassung The Cambridge Companion to Dante was fully updated in 2007 to take account of the recent scholarship and includes three new essays on Dante's works. This edition will ensure that the Companion continues to be the most useful single volume for new generations of students of Dante. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Chronology; 1. Life of Dante Giuseppe Mazzotta; 2. Dante and the lyric past Teodolina Barolini; 3. Approaching the Vita nuova Robert Pogue Harrison; 4. From auctor to author: Dante before the Commedia Albert Russell Ascoli; 5. Introduction to Inferno Lino Pertile; 6. Introduction to Purgatorio Jeffrey T. Schnapp; 7. 'Shadowy prefaces': introduction to Paradiso Rachel Jacoff; 8. Dante and the Bible Peter S. Hawkins; 9. Dante and the classical poets Kevin Brownlee; 10. Allegory and autobiography John Freccero; 11. A poetics of chaos and harmony Joan Ferrante; 12. The theology of the Commedia A. N. Williams; 13. The poetry and poetics of the creation Piero Boitani; 14. Dante and Florence John M. Najemy; 15. Dante and the empire Charles Till Davis; 16. Dante and his commentators Robert Hollander; 17. Dante in English David Wallace; Further reading.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Rachel Jacoff
• Mitarbeit: Rachel Jacoff (Herausgeber), Rachel (Wellesley College Jacoff (Herausgeber), Jacoff Rachel (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 15.02.2007
• EAN: 9780521605816
• ISBN: 978-0-521-60581-6
• Abmessung: 155 mm x 230 mm x 22 mm
• Serien: Cambridge Companions to Literature; Cambridge companion; Cambridge Companions to Literature; Cambridge companion
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft; Schule und Lernen