Narrative Design in Dante’s Earthly Paradise

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction ix
5. Dante and Medieval Poetics 1
6. Palinode and History in the Oeuvre of Dante 23
7. Dante and the Classics 51
8. Dante and the Bible: Biblical Citation in the Divine Comedy 74
9. Forbidden Love: Metaphor and History (Inferno 5) 94
10. Dante’s Ulysses: Narrative and Transgression 113
11. Narrative Design in Dante’s Earthly Paradise 133
12. A Desire of Paradise and a Paradise of Desire: Dante and Mysticism 148
13. Dante and the Authority of Poetic Language 167
14. Dante and Politics 181
15. Dante and Androgyny 195
16. Singing the Book: Orality in the Reception of Dante’s Comedy 214
17. Interpreting the Commentary Tradition to the Comedy 240
18. Reader’s Application and the Moment of Truth in Dante’s Divine Comedy 259
19. Notes on Contributors 281
20. Index 285