Dante The Poetics of Conversion

Name: Dante The Poetics of Conversion
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ISBN: 9780674192263

ISBN-10: 0674192265

ISBN-13: 9780674192263

Edition: 1986 (Reprint)

Authors: John Freccero, Rachel Jacoff, Rachel Jacoff

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John Freccero enables us to see the Divine Comedy for the bold, poetic experiment thatit is. Too many critics have domesticatedDante by separating his theology from hispoetics. Freccero argues that to fail to see theconvergence of the letter and the spirit, thepilgrim and the poet, is to fail to understandDante's poetics of conversion. For Dante,body and soul go together and there is nosalvation that's purely intellectual, no poetrythat is simply literary.The essays that form this book were originally published between 1959 and 1984.They are arranged to follow the order of the Comedy, and they form the perfect companion for a reader of the poem. With these essays assembled for the first…

Book details

List price: $41.00
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/15/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Rachel Jacoff is Professor of Italian at Wellesley College.



Introduction




The Prologue Scene



The Firm Foot on a Journey Without a Guide



The River of Death: Inferno II, 108



Pilgrim in a Gyre



Infernal Irony: The Gates of Hell



The Neutral Angels



Medusa: The Letter and the Spirit



Dante's Ulysses: From Epic to Novel



Bestial Sign and Bread of Angels: Inferno XXXII and XXXIII



The Sign of Satan



Infernal Inversion and Christian Conversion: Inferno XXXIV



Casella's Song: Purgatorio II, 12



Manfred's Wounds and the Poetics of the Purgatorio



An Introduction to the Paradiso



The Dance of the Stars: Paradiso X



The Final Image: Paradiso XXXIII, 144



The Significance of Terza Rima


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