Dante For the New Millennium (Fordham Series in Medieval Studies) - Hardcover

Barolini, Teodolinda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0823222713 ISBN 13: 9780823222711

Publisher: Fordham University Press, 2017

Synopsis

The twenty-five original essays in this remarkable book constitute both a state of the art survey of Dante scholarship and a manifesto for new understandings of one of the world's great poets. The fruit of an historic conference called by the Dante Society of America, the essays confront a range of important questions. What theories, methods, and issues are unique to Dante scholarship? How are they changing? What is the essence of the distinctive American Dante tradition? Why-and how-do we read Dante in today's global, postmodern culture? From John Ahern on the first copies of the Commedia to Peter Hawkins and Rachel Jacoff on Dante after modernism, the essays shed brilliant new light on Dante's texts, his world, and what we make of his legacy. The contributors: John Ahern, H. Wayne Storey, Guglielmo Gorni, Teodolinda Barolini, Gary P. Cestaro, Lino Pertile, F. Regina Psaki, Steven Botterill, Giuseppe Mazzotta, Alison Cornish, Robert M. Durling, Manuele Gragnolati, Giuliana Carugati, Susan Noakes, Zygmunt Baranski, Christopher Kleinhenz, Ronald L. Martinez, Ronald Herzman, Amilcare Iannucci, Albert Russell Ascoli, Michelangelo Picone, Jessica Levenstein, David Wallace, Piero Boitani, Peter Hawkins, and Rachel Jacoff.

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Review

All in all, though, Dante for the New Millennium represents a major achievement. Thematically diverse yet tightly organized, finely edited, oriented both toward past approaches and future directions of research in the field, with--judiciously--separate bibliographies for each section, and a fine general index...the volume richly illustrates the thematic, methodological, and critical diversity of contemporary Anglo-American Dante studies.----Simon Gilson "Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies "

These scholars stand as staunch supporters of the constant need to re-evaluate Dante's medieval texts to discover what new word he has for readers that now live in a postmodern context.----Jessica Raymond "Christianity & Literature "

Synopsis

Twenty five essays from a wide range of contributors constitute a state of the survey of Dante scholarship and a manifesto for understanding one of the world's greatest poets. The fruit of a historic conference called by the Dante Society of America, they confront a range of important questions: what theories, methods and issues are unique to Dante scholarship? How are they changing? What is the essence of the distinctive American Dante tradition? Why - and how- do we read the poet in today's global, postmodern culture? From John Ahern writing on the first copies of "Comedia" to Peter Hawkins and Rachel Jacoff on Dante after modernism, the essays shed light on Dante's texts, his world and what we make of his legacy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0823222713
• ISBN 13: 9780823222711
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 528