Dante''s Masterplot and Alternative Narratives in the Commedia

Alongside traditional notions of Dante's trademark plurality of linguistic registers and styles, this book argues that his narrative pluralism can and should play a key role in contemporary and future readings of the Commedia.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction: Dante's masterplot


• 2: Paradox in the poem


• 3: Alternative endings and parallel lives


• 4: The future in/out of the Commedia


• 5: Epilogue: Dante's narrative pluralism

About the author

Nicolò Crisafi is a Research and Teaching Fellow in Italian and Director of Modern Languages at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. He has published on medieval Italian literature with a focus on the works of Dante Alighieri. He engages in research on narrative theory, the role of the reader, the relation between language, affect, and vulnerability, and the intersection between narrative forms and worldviews. His current project on possibility and the utopian imagination, developed as a fellow of ICI Berlin (2018-2020), investigates narratives of possibility and their political implications in the late middle ages.

Summary

Alongside traditional notions of Dante's trademark plurality of linguistic registers and styles, this book argues that his narrative pluralism can and should play a key role in contemporary and future readings of the Commedia.

Product details

• Authors: Nicolò Crisafi, Nicolo (Research and Teaching Fellow in I Crisafi
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.02.2022
• EAN: 9780192857675
• ISBN: 978-0-19-285767-5
• No. of pages: 210
• Series: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Italian, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets