Dante and the origins of Italian literary culture / Teodolinda Barolini.
| Author/creator | Barolini, Teodolinda, 1951- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Publication Info | New York : Fordham University Press, |
| Description | viii, 475 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 1. Dante and the lyric past -- 2. Guittone's Ora parrá, 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 -- 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 -- 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 Robertis -- 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, 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 |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-466) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2006029447 |
| ISBN | 0823227030 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780823227037 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0823227049 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780823227044 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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