Patterns in Dante - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1851825428 ISBN 13: 9781851825424

Publisher: Four Courts Press Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

The essays in this collection are based on lectures forming part of the annual Dante Series at University College Dublin in 1995 and 1996. The common theme of 'patterns' is variously approached, from John Took's account of opposing existential patterns to the more linguistically or textually based studies of David Robey and Cecil Grayson. Patterns of images (of the city, of closure, of light and shade) are discussed by Mark Davie, Cormac O Cuilleanain and Jennifer Petrie, while Peter Armour evaluates various theories of Dante's allegorical patterning. More detailed explorations of intertextual patterns mark the studies of Giuseppe Mazzotta and Michelangelo Picone.

About this title

Synopsis:

Nine essays based on public lectures delivered at University College Dublin in 1995 and 1996, find patterns in Dante's Commedia that reveal larger messages than does any particular passage. Among their topics are allegory and figural patterns, shadowy patterns, patterns of enclosure, the classical context of the Ulysses canto, and the language of f

About this edition

• Publisher: Four Courts Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1851825428
• ISBN 13: 9781851825424
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: O Cuilleanain Cormac, Petrie Jennifer