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A vivid reimagining of the Vita nuova as a revolution in poetry and a revelation of divine destiny through love.
List of contents
1. Introduction: The Vita nuova as Theological Revelation through Lyrical Interpretation; 2. The New Testament Model of Salvific Reminiscence; 3. From Appearing and Imagining to Revealing through Interpreting: The Vita nuova's Hermeneutics of Witness; 4. Phenomenology versus Hermeneutics (Debate with Harrison): Revelation as Mediation; 5. History of Effect and a New Hermeneutics-Oriented Critical Paradigm; Picture Album; 6. Conclusion. The Existential Grounding of Revelation in Lyric; Coda; Epilogue: Dream Epistemology and Religious Revelation in Dante's Vita nuova; Appendix: Italian Text and English Translation of the Vita nuova.
About the author
William Franke is Professor of Comparative Literature and Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University and Visiting Professor at the University of Navarra. He is a research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung and has been Fulbright-University of Salzburg Distinguished Chair in Intercultural Theology and Study of Religions. His books include Dante's Interpretive Journey (1996), On What Cannot Be Said (2007), Poetry and Apocalypse (2009), Dante and the Sense of Transgression (2013), A Philosophy of the Unsayable (2014), The Revelation of Imagination: From the Bible and Homer through Virgil and Augustine to Dante (2015), Secular Scriptures: Modern Theological Poetics in the Wake of Dante (2016), A Theology of Literature (2017), and On the Universality of What is Not: The Apophatic Turn in Critical Thinking (2020).
