This newly commissioned volume presents a focused overview of Dante's masterpiece, the Commedia, offering readers of today wide-ranging insights into the poem and its core features. Leading scholars discuss matters of structure, narrative, language and style, characterization, doctrine, and politics, in chapters that make their own contributions to Dante criticism by raising problems and questions that call for renewed attention, while investigating contextual concerns as well as the current state of criticism about the poem. The Commedia is also placed in a variety of cultural and historical contexts through accounts of the poem's transmission and reception that explore both its contemporary influence and its continuing legacy today. With its accessible approach, its unstinting focus on the poem and its attention to matters that have not always received adequate critical assessment, this volume will be of value to all students and scholars of Dante's great poem.
| ISBN: | 9781108431705 |
| Publication date: | 31st December 2018 |
| Author: | Zygmunt G BaraÔnski, Simon A Gilson |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 326 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Companions |
| Genres: |
Literature: history and criticism |
This newly commissioned volume presents a focused overview of Dante's masterpiece, the Commedia, offering readers of today wide-ranging insights into the poem and its core features. Leading scholars discuss matters of structure, narrative, language and style, characterization, doctrine, and politics, in chapters that make their own contributions to Dante criticism by raising problems and questions that call for renewed attention, while investigating contextual concerns as well as the current state of criticism about the poem. The Commedia is also placed in a variety of cultural and historical contexts through accounts of the poem's transmission and reception that explore both its contemporary influence and its continuing legacy today. With its accessible approach, its unstinting focus on the poem and its attention to matters that have not always received adequate critical assessment, this volume will be of value to all students and scholars of Dante's great poem.
The Cambridge Companion to Dante's Commedia features in the following genres: Literature: history and criticism
The Cambridge Companion to Dante's Commedia is available in Paperback
The Cambridge Companion to Dante's Commedia was written by Zygmunt G BaraÔnski, Simon A Gilson and published by Cambridge University Press
The Cambridge Companion to Dante's Commedia has 326 pages
Yes it is part of Cambridge Companions series
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