Download or read book Dante s Enigmas written by Richard Kay and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dante's Comedy is a puzzling poem because the author wanted to lead his readers to understanding by engaging their curiosity. While many obscure matters are clarified in the course of the poem itself, others have remained enigmas that have fascinated Dantists for centuries. Over the last thirty-five years, Richard Kay has proposed original solutions to many of these puzzles; these are collected in the present volume. Historical context frames Kay's readings, which relate the poem to such standard sources as the Bible, Aristotle, Aquinas, and the Latin classics, but he also goes beyond these Scholastic sources to exploit Dante's use of less familiar aspects of Latin clerical culture, including physiognomy, Vitruvian proportions, and optics, and most especially astrology. Kay explores new ways to read the Comedy. For instance, he argues that Dante has embedded references to his authorities in a continuous series of acrostics formed by the initial letters of each tercet. Again, he shows how Dante returns to the theme of each infernal canto and develops it in the parallel cantos of Purgatorio and Paradiso. Particularly worthy of note are four essays on the poem's finale in the Empyrean.
Download or read book Dante s Enigmas written by Richard Kay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical context frames Richard Kay's readings of some of the enigmas in Dante's Divine Comedy. These relate the poem to such standard sources as the Bible, Aristotle, Aquinas, and the Latin classics, but also go beyond these Scholastic sources to exploit Dante's use of less familiar aspects of Latin clerical culture, including physiognomy, Vitruvian proportions, and optics, and most especially astrology. Kay explores new ways to read the Comedy, investigating acrostics, parallelisms between cantos of Purgatorio and Paradiso, and aspects of the poem's finale in the Empyrean.
Download or read book Dante written by Matteo Strukul and published by Humanitas Fiction. This book was released on 2022-09-23 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traducere și note de Gabriela Lungu În 2021, când s-au împlinit 700 de ani de la moartea lui Dante, Matteo Strukul a publicat romanul de față, care ne oferă o imagine inedită asupra tinereții florentinului și evenimentelor legate de geneza Divinei Comedii. Romanul Dante: Enigma a ajuns imediat după apariție în vârful topurilor de vânzări din Italia. Florența, 1288. Un oraș sumbru, terifiat, aflat în mâinile lui Corso Donati, conducătorul guelfilor cel însetat de sângele ghibelinilor care i-au măcelărit aliații la Pieve al Toppo. În acest teatru al apocalipsei se mișcă Dante Alighieri: demn, curajos, devotat lui Beatrice, dar nevoit să trăiască alături de soția sa, Gemma; prieten cu Giotto, iubitor de poezie și artă, dar chemat să-și facă datoria pe câmpul de luptă. Dante va înfrunta moartea la Campaldino, într-o zi sângeroasă care a schimbat cursul istoriei. Bărbat zbuciumat, războinic lucid, poet îndrăgostit – un Dante necunoscut.
Download or read book Dante s Infernal Puzzle Collection written by Tim Dedopulos and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dante on View written by Antonella Braida and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dante on View opens an important new dimension in Dante studies. The volume's interdisciplinary approach to reception brings together literary criticism, visual culture and performance studies. Dante's Commedia is re-created through the performances of readers and artists in a wide range of media. The essays analyse creative uses of the poet from medieval manuscript illumination to nineteenth and twentieth-century stage productions, from film to ballet and hyperinstruments.
Download or read book The Divine comedy of Dante Alighieri translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Piers Plowman and the Poetics of Enigma written by Curtis A. Gruenler and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Curtis Gruenler proposes that the concept of the enigmatic, latent in a wide range of medieval thinking about literature, can help us better understand in medieval terms much of the era’s most enduring literature, from the riddles of the Anglo-Saxon bishop Aldhelm to the great vernacular works of Dante, Chaucer, Julian of Norwich, and, above all, Langland’s Piers Plowman. Riddles, rhetoric, and theology—the three fields of meaning of aenigma in medieval Latin—map a way of thinking about reading and writing obscure literature that was widely shared across the Middle Ages. The poetics of enigma links inquiry about language by theologians with theologically ambitious literature. Each sense of enigma brings out an aspect of this poetics. The playfulness of riddling, both oral and literate, was joined to a Christian vision of literature by Aldhelm and the Old English riddles of the Exeter Book. Defined in rhetoric as an obscure allegory, enigma was condemned by classical authorities but resurrected under the influence of Augustine as an aid to contemplation. Its theological significance follows from a favorite biblical verse among medieval theologians, “We see now through a mirror in an enigma, then face to face” (1 Cor. 13:12). Along with other examples of the poetics of enigma, Piers Plowman can be seen as a culmination of centuries of reflection on the importance of obscure language for knowing and participating in endless mysteries of divinity and humanity and a bridge to the importance of the enigmatic in modern literature. This book will be especially useful for scholars and undergraduate students interested in medieval European literature, literary theory, and contemplative theology.
Download or read book The Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Divine comedy of Dante Alighieri tr by H W Longfellow written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Divine comedy of Dante Alighieri translated by H W Longfellow written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Enigmas and Riddles in Literature written by Eleanor Cook and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-16 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging and original study on how enigmas and riddles work in literature.
Download or read book Approaches to Teaching Dante s Divine Comedy written by Christopher Kleinhenz and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2020-02-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dante's Divine Comedy can compel and shock readers: it combines intense emotion and psychological insight with medieval theology and philosophy. This volume will help instructors lead their students through the many dimensions--historical, literary, religious, and ethical--that make the work so rewarding and enduringly relevant yet so difficult. Part 1, "Materials," gives instructors an overview of the important scholarship on the Divine Comedy. The essays of part 2, "Approaches," describe ways to teach the work in the light of its contemporary culture and ours. Various teaching situations (a first-year seminar, a creative writing class, high school, a prison) are considered, and the many available translations are discussed.
Download or read book The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri written by Dante Alighieri and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri written by and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The trilogy or Dante s three visions transl in the metre and rhyme of the original with notes by J W Thomas written by Dante Alighieri and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dante s Divine Comedy written by Ian Thomson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A TLS Book of the Year. 'Erudite and urgent, Ian Thomson's Dante's Divine Comedy is another book that everyone ought to read' Spectator. 'Succinct but wide-ranging, Ian Thomson's richly illustrated exploration of Dante's masterpiece is... fun... ingenious... fascinating' Observer. 'A book worth savouring as a chunky, chatty, richly illustrated guide that brings Dante and his world within our reach' Evening Standard. A lively and wide-ranging exploration of a literary masterwork and its influence on writers, poets, artists and film-makers up to our own time. Dante has no equal as he sings of other-worldly horror and celestial beatitude alike. Yet for all our distance from medieval theology, the Florentine poet's allegorical journey through hell, purgatory and paradise remains one of the essential works of world literature. At least fifty English language versions of the Inferno – the first part of Dante's poem – appeared in the twentieth century alone. If Dante's Divine Comedy speaks to our present condition, it is because it tells the story of Everyman who sets out in search of salvation in this world. Dante composed his great poem in the spoken Italian of his time. He wrote about suffering bodies and human weakness, and about divine ecstasy, in words that have resonated with readers and writers for the last seven hundred years.
Download or read book Dante Encyclopedia written by Richard Lansing and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 2067 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available for the first time in paperback, this essential resource presents a systematic introduction to Dante's life and works, his cultural context and intellectual legacy. The only such work available in English, this Encyclopedia: brings together contemporary theories on Dante, summarizing them in clear and vivid prose provides in-depth discussions of the Divine Comedy, looking at title and form, moral structure, allegory and realism, manuscript tradition, and also taking account of the various editions of the work over the centuries contains numerous entries on Dante's other important writings and on the major subjects covered within them addresses connections between Dante and philosophy, theology, poetics, art, psychology, science, and music as well as critical perspective across the ages, from Dante's first critics to the present.
Download or read book The Enigma of Good and Evil The Moral Sentiment in Literature written by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-08-27 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Striking toward peace and harmony the human being is ceasely torn apart in personal, social, national life by wars, feuds, inequities and intimate personal conflicts for which there seems to be no respite. Does the human condition in interaction with others imply a constant adversity? Or, is this conflict owing to an interior or external factor of evil governing our attitudes and conduct toward the other person? To what criteria should I refer for appreciation, judgment, direction concerning my attitudes and my actions as they bear on the well-being of others? At the roots of these questions lies human experience which ought to be appropriately clarified before entering into speculative abstractions of the ethical theories and precepts. Literature, which in its very gist, dwells upon disentangling in multiple perspective the peripeteia of our life-experience offers us a unique field of source-material for moral and ethical investigations. Literature brings preeminently to light the Moral Sentiment which pervades our life with others -- our existence tout court. Being modulated through the course of our experiences the Moral Sentiment sustains the very sense of literature and of personal human life (Tymieniecka).
