Dante for the new millennium
By: edited by Teodolinda Barolini and H. Wayne Storey.
Contributors: Barolini, Teodolinda, 1951-; Storey, Wayne.; Dante Society of America.; Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Fordham series in medieval studies,; no. 2
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 498
Subjects: Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: The twenty-five original essays in this ... book constitute both a ... survey of Dante scholarship and a detailed manifesto for ... understanding of one of the world's great poets ... The essays ... confront a range of important questions: What theories, methods, and issues are unique to Dante scholarship? How are they changing? What approaches constitute the distinctive American tradition in Dante studies, and how has this body of critical understanding taken shape? Why - and how - do we read Dante in today's global, postmodern culture? From John Ahern on the first copies of the Commedia to Peter Hawkins and Rachel Jacoff on Dante after modernism, the essays shed ... light on Dante's texts, his world, and what teachers, scholars, poets, and other readers in a wide variety of cultures and contexts make of his ... legacy.-Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Proceedings of "Dante2000," sponsored by the Dante Society of America and the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, held at Columbia University on Apr. 7-9, 2000.