Robin Kirkpatrick

Dante's Inferno

Difficulty and Dead Poetry

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9780521070522
• ISBN-10: 052107052X
• Artikelnr.: 23882281

Inhaltsangabe

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.