Dante's Inferno
Difficulty and Dead Poetry
Part of Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
- Author: Robin Kirkpatrick
- Date Published: July 2008
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521070522
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This book represents a major re-assessment of Dante's Inferno, and of the place which the Inferno occupies in the plan of the whole Commedia. On evidence drawn also from the Paradiso and Purgatorio, Dr Kirkpatrick argues that Dante's thinking and poetry are subject to far greater internal tension than is commonly supposed. He then proceeds to analyse each of the thirty-four cantos of the Inferno, and to relate each canto in turn to its thematic and narrative context. Throughout, Dr Kirkpatrick is particularly concerned with features of language and structure which scholars have tended to overlook in emphasising the philosophical character of Dante's poetry. And while he chooses, for the sake of clarity, to write in the accessible language of interpretative criticism, he continually stresses the extent to which advances in modern critical practice may usefully be brought to bear upon Dante's writing.
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- Date Published: July 2008
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521070522
- length: 464 pages
- dimensions: 232 x 156 x 12 mm
- weight: 1.83kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Action and order: Cantos
2. History, nature and philosophy: Cantos
3 Narrative, myth and the individual: Cantos xii-xvi
4. Comedy and identity: Cantos xvii-xxiii
5. Signs in transition and the pathos of order: Cantos xxiv-xxvii
6. Endings, tragic and comic: Cantos xxviii-xxxiii
7. Conclusion: dead poetry: Inferno xxxiii and the Vita nuova.
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