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PublisherFordham University Press

ISBN-100823222713

ISBN-139780823222711

eBay Product ID (ePID)5934977

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Edition2

Book TitleDante for the New Millennium

Number of Pages498 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicLetters, American / General, European / Italian

Publication Year2003

GenreLiterary Criticism, Literary Collections

AuthorH. Wayne Storey

Book SeriesFordham Series in Medieval Studies

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight31.2 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width7.3 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2003-012315

ReviewsAll in all, though, Dante for the New Millennium represents a major achievement. Thematically diverse yet tightly organized, finely edited, oriented both toward past approaches and future directions of research in the field, with--judiciously--separate bibliographies for each section, and a fine general index...the volume richly illustrates the thematic, methodological, and critical diversity of contemporary Anglo-American Dante studies. -----Simon Gilson, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, These scholars stand as staunch supporters of the constant need to re-evaluate Dante's medieval texts to discover what new word he has for readers that now live in a postmodern context. -----Jessica Raymond, Christianity & Literature, "These scholars stand as staunch supporters of the constant need to re-evaluate Dante's medieval texts to discover what new word he has for readers that now live in a postmodern context." --Jessica Raymond, Christianity & Literature, All in all, though, Dante for the New Millennium represents a major achievement. Thematically diverse yet tightly organized, finely edited, oriented both toward past approaches and future directions of research in the field, with--judiciously--, - separate bibliographies for each section, and a fine general index...the volume richly illustrates the thematic, methodological, and critical diversity of contemporary Anglo-American Dante studies.

Dewey Edition21

Series Volume NumberNo. 2

Dewey Decimal851/.1

SynopsisThe twenty-five original essays in this remarkable book constitute both a state of the art survey of Dante scholarship and a manifesto for new understandings of one of the world's great poets. The fruit of an historic conference called by the Dante Society of America, the essays confront a range of important questions. What theories, methods, and issues are unique to Dante scholarship? How are they changing? What is the essence of the distinctive American Dante tradition? Why--and how--do we read Dante in today's global, postmodern culture? From John Ahern on the first copies of the Commedia to Peter Hawkins and Rachel Jacoff on Dante after modernism, the essays shed brilliant new light on Dante's texts, his world, and what we make of his legacy. The contributors: John Ahern, H. Wayne Storey, Guglielmo Gorni, Teodolinda Barolini, Gary P. Cestaro, Lino Pertile, F. Regina Psaki, Steven Botterill, Giuseppe Mazzotta, Alison Cornish, Robert M. Durling, Manuele Gragnolati, Giuliana Carugati, Susan Noakes, Zygmunt Baranski, Christopher Kleinhenz, Ronald L. Martinez, Ronald Herzman, Amilcare Iannucci, Albert Russell Ascoli, Michelangelo Picone, Jessica Levenstein, David Wallace, Piero Boitani, Peter Hawkins, and Rachel Jacoff., The twenty-five original essays in this remarkable book constitute both a state of the art survey of Dante scholarship and a manifesto for new understandings of one of the world's great poets.

LC Classification NumberPQ4390.D2815 2003