Title: Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages
Description: "This volume takes Dante's rich and multifaceted discourse of desire, from the Vita Nova to the Commedia, as a point of departure in investigating medieval concepts of desire in all their multiplicity, fragmentation and interrelation. As well as offering several original contributions on this fundamental aspect of Dante's work, it seeks to situate the Florentine writer more effectively within the broader spectrum of medieval culture and to establish greater intellectual exchange between Dante scholars and those from other disciplines. The volume is open to diverse critical and methodological approaches, and explores the extent to which modern theoretical paradigms can be used to shed light upon the Middle Ages."--Publisher's website.
Subjects: Themes, motives, Criticism and interpretation, History and criticism, Desire in literature, Medieval Literature, Dante alighieri, 1265-1321, Literature, medieval, history and criticism, Désir dans la littérature, Littérature médiévale, Histoire et critique, POETRY, Continental European
People: Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)