Undivine Comedy Detheologizing Dante

Name: Undivine Comedy Detheologizing Dante
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ISBN: 9780691015286

ISBN-10: 0691015287

ISBN-13: 9780691015286

Edition: 1993

Authors: Teodolinda Barolini

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Accepting Dante's prophetic truth claims on their own terms, Teodolinda Barolini proposes a "detheologized" reading as a global new approach to theDivine Comedy. Not aimed at excising theological concerns from Dante, this approach instead attempts to break out of the hermeneutic guidelines that Dante structured into his poem and that have resulted in theologized readings whose outcomes have been overdetermined by the poet. By detheologizing, the reader can emerge from this poet's hall of mirrors and discover the narrative techniques that enabled Dante to forge a true fiction. Foregrounding the formal exigencies that Dante masked as ideology, Barolini moves from the problems of beginning to…

Book details

List price: $63.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 11/19/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Preface


Editions and Acknowledgments



Detheologizing Dante: Realism, Reception, and the Resources of Narrative



Infernal Incipits: The Poetics of the New



Ulysses, Geryon, and the Aeronautics of Narrative Transition



Narrative and Style in Lower Hell



Purgatory as Paradigm: Traveling the New and Never-Before-Traveled Path of This Life/Poem



Re-presenting What God Presented: The Arachnean Art of the Terrace of Pride



Nonfalse Errors and the True Dreams of the Evangelist



Problems in Paradise: The Mimesis of Time and the Paradox of piu e meno



The Heaven of the Sun as a Meditation on Narrative



The Sacred Poem Is Forced to Jump: Closure and the Poetics of Enjambment



Transition: How Cantos Begin and End


Notes


Index