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Zusatztext Martin Eisner's monograph marks a much-awaited breakthrough in the history of Dante Studies. It is the first full-length study to attempt and succeed at reconciling and transnational comparativism in Reception Studies...Dante's New Life of the Book sets a whole new course for the field demonstrating that the synergy between textual, book-historical, and reception studies illuminates the darkest corners in the history of a work's 'continued survival' across time, editorial formats, and world literatures. Informationen zum Autor Martin Eisner is Professor of Italian and Chair of Romance Studies at Duke University. He is the author of Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature (Cambridge, 2013) and Boccaccio: A Life in Books (Reaktion Books, forthcoming). Klappentext Dante's New Life of the Book examines Dante's Vita nuova through its transformations in manuscripts, printed books, translations, and adaptations. Eisner investigates how these different material manifestations participate in the work, drawing attention to its distinctive elements. Zusammenfassung Dante's New Life of the Book examines Dante's Vita nuova through its transformations in manuscripts, printed books, translations, and adaptations. Eisner investigates how these different material manifestations participate in the work, drawing attention to its distinctive elements. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue: A Philology of World Literature Part One: Interpreting Beatrice 1: The Encounter (Postcard) 2: The Dream (Film) 3: The Crisis (Musical Staves) Part Two: Glossing Beatrice 4: The Mouth (Marginal Gloss) 5: The New Homer (Ultraviolet Colophon) 6: The Interruption (Picture Frame) Part Three: Remembering Beatrice 7: The Painting (Composition) 8: The Other Woman (Collation) 9: The Veronica (Tipped-in)
