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" The Cambridge companion to Dante / "
edited by Rachel Jacoff.
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BL
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966025
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b720395
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Jacoff, Rachel
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The Cambridge companion to Dante /\ edited by Rachel Jacoff.
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| Edition Statement
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2nd ed.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, ©2007.
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| Series Statement
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Cambridge companions to literature
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xiv, 317 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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0521605814
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: 0521844304
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: 9780521605816
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: 9780521844307
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Life of Dante / Giuseppe Mazzotta -- Dante and the lyric past / Teodolinda Barolini -- Approaching the Vita nuova / Robert Pogue Harrison -- From auctor to author : Dante before the Commedia / Albert Russell Ascoli -- Introduction to Inferno / Lino Pertile -- Introduction to Purgatorio / Jeffrey T. Schnapp -- Introduction to Paradiso / Rachel Jacoff -- Dante and the Bible / Peter S. Hawkins -- Dante and the classical poets / Kevin Brownlee -- Allegory and autobiography / John Freccero -- A poetics of chaos and harmony / Joan Ferrante -- The theology of the Comedy / A.N. Williams -- The poetry and poetics of the creation / Piero Boitani -- Dante and Florence / John M. Najemy -- Dante and the empire / Charles Till Davis -- Dante and his commentators / Robert Hollander -- Dante in English / David Wallace.
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Unlike many recent "companions" that seek to rewrite and revise traditional scholarship--e.g., The Cambridge Companion to Dostoevskii, ed. by W.J. Leatherborrow (CH, Mar'03, 40-3897)--the second edition of the present title (first ed., 2003) remains a bastion of authoritative scholarship and sound criticism. Jacoff (Wellesley College) adds to the original 14 essays (all of which have been updated) three new contributions. The essays center on five principal areas of Dante scholarship: Dante's early works and their relationship to the Divine Comedy; vernacular and classical literary antecedents of Dante's poetry; theological and biblical influences; historical and political dimensions of the works; and reception history. The volume opens with Giuseppe Mazzotta's brilliantly concise and decisive "Life of Dante," as useful a brief introduction to the subject as can be imagined, and it features introductory essays on each of the three canticles of the Comedy, offering insightful readings of important textual practices and critical background information. In keeping with the breadth of Dante scholarship and the limited format of the series, most of the essays include suggested further reading, and an entire section provides information about translations, Web sites, secondary works, and various other aids to the study of Dante and his world.
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Dante Alighieri,1265-1321-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Dante Alighieri,1265-1321-- Studies.
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Dante Alighieri,1265-1321-- Critique et interprétation.
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Dante Alighieri,1265-1321.
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Dante Alighieri.
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Dante, 1265-1321
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Dante
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Dante Alighieri-- 1265-1321.
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| Dewey Classification
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851/.1
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| LC Classification
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PQ4335.C36 2007
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I546.072clc
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IT 5680rvk
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