Dante on View: The Reception of Dante in the Visual and Performing Arts - Hardcover

 
9780754658962: Dante on View: The Reception of Dante in the Visual and Performing Arts
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0754658961 ISBN 13: 9780754658962
Publisher: Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

Dante on View opens an important new dimension in Dante studies: for the first time a collection of essays analyses the presence of the Italian Medieval poet Dante Alighieri in the visual and performing arts from the Middle Ages to the present day. The essays in this volume explore the image of Dante emerging in medieval illuminated manuscripts and later ideological and nostalgic uses of the poet. The volume also demonstrates the rich diversity of projects inspired by the Commedia both as an overall polysemic structure and as a repository of scenes, which generate a repertoire for painters, actors and film-makers. In its original multimediality, Dante's Commedia stimulates the performance of readers and artists working in different media from manuscript to stage, from ballet to hyperinstruments, from film to television. Through such a variety of media, the reception of Dante in the visual and performing arts enriches our understanding of the poet and of the arts represented at key moments of formal and structural change in the European cultural world.

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About the Author

Dr Antonella Braida is lecturer in Italian at the University of Durham, UK.

Dr Luisa Calè is a lecturer in the School of English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0754658961
ISBN 13 
9780754658962
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
244
Editor
Braida Antonella, Calè Luisa