William Franke

Dante's Vita nuova and the New Testament

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Produktbeschreibung

A vivid reimagining of the Vita nuova as a revolution in poetry and a revelation of divine destiny through love.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9781316516171
• ISBN-10: 1316516172
• Artikelnr.: 62212600

Autorenporträt

William Franke is Professor of Comparative Literature and Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University and Visiting Professor at the University of Navarra. He is a research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung and has been Fulbright-University of Salzburg Distinguished Chair in Intercultural Theology and Study of Religions. His books include Dante's Interpretive Journey (1996), On What Cannot Be Said (2007), Poetry and Apocalypse (2009), Dante and the Sense of Transgression (2013), A Philosophy of the Unsayable (2014), The Revelation of Imagination: From the Bible and Homer through Virgil and Augustine to Dante (2015), Secular Scriptures: Modern Theological Poetics in the Wake of Dante (2016), A Theology of Literature (2017), and On the Universality of What is Not: The Apophatic Turn in Critical Thinking (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: The Vita nuova as Theological Revelation through Lyrical Interpretation
2. The New Testament Model of Salvific Reminiscence
3. From Appearing and Imagining to Revealing through Interpreting: The Vita nuova's Hermeneutics of Witness
4. Phenomenology versus Hermeneutics (Debate with Harrison): Revelation as Mediation
5. History of Effect and a New Hermeneutics-Oriented Critical Paradigm
Picture Album
6. Conclusion. The Existential Grounding of Revelation in Lyric
Coda
Epilogue: Dream Epistemology and Religious Revelation in Dante's Vita nuova
Appendix: Italian Text and English Translation of the Vita nuova.