Authors: Teodolinda Barolini, H. Storey, Wayne Storey
ISBN-13: 9780823222728, ISBN-10: 0823222721
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Date Published: October 2003
Edition: 1st Edition
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? Whyand howdo 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 Foster Wallace, Piero Boitani, Peter Hawkins, and Rachel Jacoff.
Introduction | ||
Notes for an Introduction | ||
Abbreviations | ||
1 | What Did the First Copies of the Comedy Look Like? | 1 |
2 | Early Editorial Forms of Dante's Lyrics | 16 |
3 | Material Philology, Conjectural Philology, Philology without Adjectives | 44 |
Philologies: Works Cited | 56 | |
4 | Beyond (Courtly) Dualism: Thinking about Gender in Dante's Lyrics | 65 |
5 | Queering Nature, Queering Gender: Dante and Sodomy | 90 |
6 | Does the Stilnovo Go to Heaven? | 104 |
7 | Love for Beatrice: Transcending Contradiction in the Paradiso | 115 |
Appetites: Works Cited | 131 | |
8 | Mysticism and Meaning in Dante's Paradiso | 143 |
9 | The Heaven of the Sun: Dante between Aquinas and Bonaventure | 152 |
10 | Vulgarizing Science: Vernacular Translation of Natural Philosophy | 169 |
11 | The Body and the Flesh in the Purgatorio | 183 |
12 | From Plurality to (Near) Unicity of Forms: Embryology in Purgatorio 25 | 192 |
13 | Quando amor fa sentir de la sua pace | 211 |
Philosophies: Works Cited | 228 | |
14 | Virility, Nobility, and Banking: The Crossing of Discourses in the Tenzone with Forese | 241 |
15 | Scatology and Obscenity in Dante | 259 |
16 | On Dante and the Visual Arts | 274 |
Reception: Works Cited | 293 | |
17 | Dante's Jeremiads: The Fall of Jerusalem and the Burden of the New Pharisees, the Capetians, and Florence | 301 |
18 | From Francis to Solomon: Eschatology in the Sun | 320 |
19 | Already and Not Yet: Dante's Existential Eschatology | 334 |
20 | Dante after Dante | 349 |
Histories: Works Cited | 369 | |
21 | Ovid and the Exul Inmeritus | 389 |
22 | The Re-Formation of Marsyas in Paradiso I | 408 |
23 | Dante in England | 422 |
24 | Moby-Dante? | 435 |
25 | Still Here: Dante after Modernism | 451 |
Rewritings: Works Cited | 465 | |
Notes on Contributors | 474 | |
Index | 479 |