In Dante's wake : reading from medieval to modern in the Augustinian tradition / John Freccero ; edited by Danielle Callegari and Melissa Swain.
Freccero, John, author.; Callegari, Danielle, editor.; Swain, Melissa, editor.
2015
PQ4390 .F825 2015
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Title In Dante's wake : reading from medieval to modern in the Augustinian tradition / John Freccero ; edited by Danielle Callegari and Melissa Swain.
Author Freccero, John, author.
Uniform Title Essays. Selections
ISBN 9780823264278 (hardback)
9780823264285 (paper)
9780823264285
9780823264292 (e-book)
Published New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (204 pages) : illustrations
Call Number PQ4390 .F825 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification 851/.1
Summary "Waking to find himself shipwrecked on a strange shore before a dark wood, the pilgrim of the Divine Comedy realizes he must set his sights higher and guide his ship to a radically different port. Starting on the sand of that very shore with Dante, John Freccero begins retracing the famous voyage recounted by the poet nearly 700 years ago. Freccero follows pilgrim and poet through the Comedy and then beyond, inviting readers both uninitiated and accomplished to join him in navigating this complex medieval masterpiece and its influence on later literature. Perfectly impenetrable in its poetry and unabashedly ambitious in its content, the Divine Comedy is the cosmos collapsed on itself, heavy with dense matter and impossible to expand. Yet Dante's great triumph is seen in the tiny, subtle fragments that make up the seamless whole, pieces that the poet painstakingly sewed together to form a work that insinuates itself into the reader and inspires the work of the next author. Freccero magnifies the most infinitesimal elements of that intricate construction to identify self-similar parts, revealing the full breadth of the great poem. Using this same technique, Freccero then turns to later giants of literature- Petrarch, Machiavelli, Donne, Joyce, and Svevo-demonstrating how these authors absorbed these smallest parts and reproduced Dante in their own work. In the process, he confronts questions of faith, friendship, gender, politics, poetry, and sexuality, so that traveling with Freccero, the reader will both cross unknown territory and reimagine familiar faces, swimming always in Dante's wake"-- Provided by publisher.
"In Dante's Wake presents a collection of essays from internationally renowned Dante scholar John Freccero. Penetrating first the Divine Comedy and then the powerful influence of Dante on those who followed him, Freccero's volume is an invaluable companion for any reader of Dante"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Swain, Melissa, editor.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Editors' introduction
List of Figures
Shipwreck in the Prologue
The Portrait of Francesca: Inferno 5
Epitaph for Guido
The Eternal Image of the Father
Allegory and Autobiography
In the Wake of the Argo on a Boundless Sea
The Fig Tree and the Laurel
Medusa and the Madonna of Forlì: Political Sexuality in Machiavelli
Donne's Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Zeno's Last Cigarette
Bibliography
Index.

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