224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

Dante's work has fascinated readers for seven hundred years and has provided key reference points for writing as diverse as that of Chaucer, the Renaissance poets, the English Romantics, Tennyson and the Pre-Raphaelites, American writers from Melville through to Eliot and Pound, Anglo-Irish Modernists from Joyce to Beckett, and contemporary poets such as Heaney and Walcott. In this volume, Jeremy... Read more
General Editors' Preface  Acknowledgements  Introduction: Dante and Modern Criticism  1. KENELM FOSTER, An Intoduction to the 'Inferno'  2. RICARDO J. QUINONES, 'Inferno': Fame and Children  3. RACHEL JACOFF, Transgression and Transcendence: Figures of Female Desire in Dante's 'Commedia'  4. PIERO BOITANI, Shipwreck: Interpretation and Alterity  5. TEODOLINDA BAROLINI, Bertan de Born and Sordello: The Poetry of Politics in Dante's 'Comedy'  6. JEREMY TAMBLING, "Nostro Paccato Fu Ermafrodito": Dante and the Moderns  7. JOHN FRECCERO, An Introduction to the 'Paradiso'  8. GIUSEPPE MAZZOTTA, Theology and Exile  9. PETER DRONKE, The Conclusion of Dante's 'Commedia'  10. ZYGMUNT G. BARANSKI, "Significar per verba": Notes on Dante and Plurilingualism  Glossary of Terms  Chronology  Suggestions for Further Reading

Biography

Professor Jeremy Tambling