The poetry of Dante's Paradiso : lives almost divine, spirits that matter / Jeremy Tambling.
Tambling, Jeremy, author.
2021
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Title The poetry of Dante's Paradiso : lives almost divine, spirits that matter / Jeremy Tambling.
Author Tambling, Jeremy, author.
ISBN 9783030656287 (electronic bk.)
3030656284 (electronic bk.)
3030656276
9783030656270
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65628-7
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-65628-7 doi
Call Number PQ4390
Dewey Decimal Classification 851.1
Summary This book argues that Paradiso Dantes vision of Heaven is not simply affirmative. It posits that Paradiso compensates for disappointment rather than fulfils hopes, and where it moves into joy and vision, this also rationalises the experience of exile and the failure of all Dantes political hopes. The book highlights and addresses a fundamental problem in reading Dante: the assumption that he writes as a Catholic Christian, which can be off-putting and induces an overly theological and partisan reading in some commentary. Accordingly, the study argues that Dante must be read now in a post-Christian modernity. It discusses Dantes Christianity fully, and takes its details as a source of wonder and beauty which need communicating to a modern reader. Yet, the study also argues that we must read for the alterity of Dantes world from ours. Jeremy Tambling is Professor of English at SWPS Warsaw (University of Social Sciences and Humanities), Poland. Prior to this, he was Professor of Literature at Manchester University, UK, and Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. He has written widely on Dante, psychoanalysis, urban literary studies, and Victorian literature. Previous publications on Dante include Dante and Difference: Writing in the Commedia (1988), Dante: A Critical Reader (ed. 1999), and Dante in Purgatory: States of Affect (2012).
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1. Introduction: Reading Paradiso out of time
2. Within the shadow of the earth
3. Dancing in the sun: Paradiso- cantos 10-14
4. Mars, Jupiter, Saturn : history and its reversals
5. Fixed stars, diasporic times: Paradiso 22-27
6. Angels: Paradiso 28 and 29
7. The ultimate vision: Paradiso 30-33
Index.

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