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 2016-05-05. Dante's Persons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dante's Persons explores the concept of personhood as it appears in Dante's Commedia and seeks out the constituent ethical modes that the poem presents as necessary for attaining a fullness of persona. The study suggests that Dante presents a vision of 'transhuman' potentiality in which the human person is, after death, fully integrated into co-presence with other individuals in a network of relations based on mutual recognition and interpersonal attention. The Commedia, Heather Webb argues, aims to depict and to actively construct a transmortal community in which the plenitude of each individual's person is realized in and through recognition of the personhood of other individuals who constitute that community, whether living or dead. Webb focuses on the strategies the Commedia employs to call us to collaborate in the mutual construction of persons. As we engage with the dead that inhabit its pages, we continue to maintain the personhood of those dead. Webb investigates Dante's implicit and explicit appeals to his readers to act in relation to the characters in his otherworlds as if they were persons. Moving through the various encounters of Purgatorio and Paradiso, this study documents the ways in which characters are presented as persone in development or in a state of plenitude through attention to the 'corporeal' modes of smiles, gazes, gestures, and postures. Dante's journey provides a model for the formation and maintenance of a network of personal attachments, attachments that, as constitutive of persona, are not superseded even in the presence of the direct vision of God.
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.
Why Dante Matters
Why Dante Matters - 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 Why Dante Matters write by John Took. This book was released on 2020-10-15. Why Dante Matters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The year 2021 marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, a poet who, as T. S. Eliot put it, 'divides the world with Shakespeare, there being no third'. His, like ours, was a world of moral uncertainty and political violence, all of which made not only for the agony of exile but for an ever deeper meditation on the nature of human happiness. In Why Dante Matters, John Took offers by way of three in particular of Dante's works – the Vita Nova as the great work of his youth, the Convivio as the great work of his middle years and the Commedia as the great work of his maturity – an account, not merely of Dante's development as a poet and philosopher, but of his continuing presence to us as a guide to man's wellbeing as man. Committed as he was to the welfare not only of his contemporaries but of those 'who will deem this time ancient', Dante's is in this sense a discourse overarching the centuries, a discourse confirming him in his status, not merely as a cultural icon, but as a fellow traveller.
Dante's Divine Comedy
Dante's Divine Comedy - 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 Divine Comedy write by Joseph Tusiani. This book was released on 2001. Dante's Divine Comedy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A prose retelling of Dante's poem about a journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise.
Dante and the Practice of Humility
Dante and the Practice of Humility - 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 Practice of Humility write by Rachel K. Teubner. This book was released on 2023-08-31. Dante and the Practice of Humility available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines humility as a key to the Comedy's poetry, demonstrating its theological vibrancy for today's readers.
