Dante''s Inferno - Difficulty and Dead Poetry

Klappentext This book represents a major re-assessment of Dante's Inferno! and of the place which the Inferno occupies in the plan of the whole Commedia. Zusammenfassung This book represents a major re-assessment of Dante's Inferno! and of the place which the Inferno occupies in the plan of the whole Commedia. On evidence drawn also from the Paradiso and Purgatorio! Dr Kirkpatrick argues that Dante's thinking and poetry are subject to far greater internal tension than is commonly supposed. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Action and order: Cantos; 2. History, nature and philosophy: Cantos; 3 Narrative, myth and the individual: Cantos xii-xvi; 4. Comedy and identity: Cantos xvii-xxiii; 5. Signs in transition and the pathos of order: Cantos xxiv-xxvii; 6. Endings, tragic and comic: Cantos xxviii-xxxiii; 7. Conclusion: dead poetry: Inferno xxxiii and the Vita nuova.

Product details

• Authors: Robin Kirkpatrick
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2008
• EAN: 9780521070522
• ISBN: 978-0-521-07052-2
• No. of pages: 464
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies