Dante and the Grammar of the Nursing Body - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dante and the Grammar of the Nursing Body write by Gary P. Cestaro. This book was released on 2003. Dante and the Grammar of the Nursing Body available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This text takes a serious look at Dante's relation to Latin grammar and the new mother tongue - Italian vernacular - by exploring the cultural significance of the nursing mother in medieval discussions of language and selfhood.
Dante's Plurilingualism
Dante's Plurilingualism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dante's Plurilingualism write by Sara Fortuna. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Dante's Plurilingualism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dante's conception of language is encompassed in all his works and can be understood in terms of a strenuous defence of the volgare in tension with the prestige of Latin. By bringing together different approaches, from literary studies to philosophy and history, from aesthetics to queer studies, from psychoanalysis to linguistics, this volume offers new critical insights on the question of Dantes language, engaging with both the philosophical works characterized by an original project of vulgarization, and the poetic works, which perform a new language in an innovative and self-reflexive way. In particular, Dantes Plurilingualism explores the rich and complex way in which Dantes linguistic theory and praxis both informs and reflects an original configuration of the relationship between authority, knowledge and identity that continues to be fascinated by an ideal of unity but is also imbued with a strong element of subjectivity and opens up towards multiplicity and modernity.
The Oxford Handbook of Dante
The Oxford Handbook of Dante - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Handbook of Dante write by Manuele Gragnolati. This book was released on 2021-03-25. The Oxford Handbook of Dante available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Oxford Handbook of Dante contains forty-four specially written chapters that provide a thorough and creative reading of Dante's oeuvre. It gathers an intergenerational and international team of scholars encompassing diverse approaches from the fields of Anglo-American, Italian, and continental scholarship and spanning several disciplines: philology, material culture, history, religion, art history, visual studies, theory from the classical to the contemporary, queer, post- and de-colonial, and feminist studies. The volume combines a rigorous reassessment of Dante's formation, themes, and sources, with a theoretically up-to-date focus on textuality, thereby offering a new critical Dante. The volume is divided into seven sections: 'Texts and Textuality'; 'Dialogues'; 'Transforming Knowledge'; Space(s) and Places'; 'A Passionate Selfhood'; 'A Non-linear Dante'; and 'Nachleben'. It seeks to challenge the Commedia-centric approach (the conviction that notwithstanding its many contradictions, Dante's works move towards the great reservoir of poetry and ideas that is the Commedia), in order to bring to light a non-teleological way in which these works relate amongst themselves. Plurality and the openness of interpretation appear as Dante's very mark, coexisting with the attempt to create an all-encompassing mastership. The Handbook suggests what is exciting about Dante now and indicate where Dante scholarship is going, or can go, in a global context.
Dante's Persons
Dante's Persons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dante's Persons write by Heather Webb. This book was released on 2016. Dante's Persons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dante's Persons is a study of the concept of personhood in Dante's Comedy. Focusing on the encounters staged in Purgatory and Paradise, the book shows how Dante redefines personhood in his otherworlds as depending on mutual recognition and interpersonal attention. The book argues that Dante fills his text with characters that readers are meant to relate to as persons. He accomplishes this by means of dense corporeal detail, suchas gestures and postures. Building from this possibility of recognizing characters as persons, Dante's text offers readers opportunities to act and to join the community that extends between the living and the dead.
Dante and Augustine
Dante and Augustine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dante and Augustine write by Simone Marchesi. This book was released on 2011-01-01. Dante and Augustine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At several junctures in his career, Dante paused to consider what it meant to be a writer. The questions he posed were both simple and wide-ranging: How does language, in particular 'poetic language,' work? Can poetry be translated? What is the relationship between a text and its commentary? Who controls the meaning of a literary work? In Dante and Augustine, Simone Marchesi re-examines these questions in light of the influence that Augustine's reflections on similar issues exerted on Dante's sense of his task as a poet. Examining Dante's life-long dialogue with Augustine from a new point of view, Marchesi goes beyond traditional inquiries to engage more technical questions relating to Dante's evolving ideas on how language, poetry, and interpretation should work. In this engaging literary analysis, Dante emerges as a versatile thinker, committed to a radical defence of poetry and yet always ready to rethink, revise, and rewrite his own positions on matters of linguistics, poetics, and hermeneutics.
