Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture [electronic resource].
Barolini, Teodolinda.
New York : Fordham University Press,
2006.
In this book, Teodolinda Barolini explores the sources of Italian literary culture in the figures of its lyric poets and its ?three crowns?: Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. Barolini views the origins of Italian literary culture through four prisms: the ideological/philosophical, the intertextual/multicultural, the structural/formal, and the social.The essays in the first section treat the ideology of love and desire from the early lyric tradition to the Inferno and its antecedents in philosophy and theology. In the second, Barolini focuses on Dante as heir to both the Christian visionary and t
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Contents; Introduction: Reading Against the Grain: Musings of an Italianist, from the Astral to the Artisanal; I. A PHILOSOPHY OF DESIRE; 1. Dante and the Lyric Past; 2. Guittone's Ora parrà, Dante's Doglia mi reca, and the Commedia's Anatomy of Desire; 3. Dante and Cavalcanti (On Making Distinctions in Matters of Love): Inferno 5 in Its Lyric and Autobiographical Context; 4. Medieval Multiculturalism and Dante's Theology of Hell; II. CHRISTIAN AND PAGAN INTERTEXTS; 5. Why Did Dante Write the Commedia? Dante and the Visionary Tradition
6. Minos's Tail: The Labor of Devising Hell (Aeneid 6.431-33 and Inferno 5.1-24)7. Q: Does Dante Hope for Vergil's Salvation? A: Why Do We Care? For the Very Reason We Should Not Ask the Question; 8. Arachne, Argus, and St. John: Transgressive Art in Dante and Ovid; III. ORDERING THE MACROTEXT: TIME AND NARRATIVE; 9. Cominciandomi dal principio infino a la fine: Forging Anti-narrative in the Vita nuova; 10. The Making of a Lyric Sequence: Time and Narrative in Petrarch's: Rerum vulgarium fragmenta; 11. The Wheel of the Decameron
12. Editing Dante's Rime and Italian Cultural History: Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarca . . . Barbi, Contini, Foster-Boyde, De RobertisIV. GENDER; 13. Le parole son femmine e i fatti son maschi: Toward a Sexual Poetics of the Decameron (Decameron 2.9, 2.10, 5.10); 14. Dante and Francesca da Rimini: Realpolitik, Romance, and Gender; 15. Sotto benda: Gender in the Lyrics of Dante and Guittone d'Arezzo (With a Brief Excursus on Cecco d'Ascoli); 16. Notes toward a Gendered History of Italian Literature, with a Discussion of Dante's Beatrix Loquax; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N
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In this book, Teodolinda Barolini explores the sources of Italian literary culture in the figures of its lyric poets and its ?three crowns?: Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. Barolini views the origins of Italian literary culture through four prisms: the ideological/philosophical, the intertextual/multicultural, the structural/formal, and the social.The essays in the first section treat the ideology of love and desire from the early lyric tradition to the Inferno and its antecedents in philosophy and theology. In the second, Barolini focuses on Dante as heir to both the Christian visionary and t
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Influence -- Italy.
Italian literature -- History and criticism.
Italian literature.
Italian literature
Romance Literatures
Languages & Literatures
Italian Literature