220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
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The heart of the book is an analysis of metaphor in the Paradiso, but the volume also reaches back to Dante's earliest lyrics and concludes with a look forward to Petrarch's use of this important device.
Preface; List o f Abbreviations; Introduction 1 Defining Metaphor: Problems and Issues 2 Metaphor in the Early Italian Lyric and Dantes Lyric Poems 3 Metaphor from the Inferno and Purgatorio to the Paradiso 4 The Metaphorical Word 5 Dantes Celestial ‘Grammar’ of Metaphor 6 Metaphor and Rhyme: A Reading of Paradiso 7 Dante’s Metaphors and the Model Reader 8 An Exegetical Response: T he Trecento Commentators 9 A Poetic Response: Petrarch’s Rerum vulgarium fragmenta; Bibliography; Index of Names; Index of Longer Quotations from ‘Paradiso’
Biography
David Gibbons
