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Poetics of Redemption - Dante's Divine Comedy (Hardcover)
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Poetics of Redemption - Dante's Divine Comedy (Hardcover)
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The essays on Dante collected in this volume interpret his Commedia
as the attempt of a renewal of the Christian work of salvation by
means of literature. In the view of his author, the sacro poema
responds to a historical moment of extreme danger, in which nothing
less than the redemption of mankind is at stake. The degradation of
the medieval Roman Empire and the rise of an early capitalism in
his birth town Florence, entailing a pernicious moral depravation
for Dante, are to him nothing else but a variety of symptoms of the
backfall of the world into its state prior to its salvation by the
incarnation of Christ. Dante presents his journey into the other
world as an endeavor to escape these risks. Mobilizing the
traditional procedures of literary discourse for this purpose, he
aims at writing a text that overcomes the deficiencies of the
traditional Book of Revelation that, on its own terms, no longer
seems capable of fulfilling his traditional tasks. The immense
revaluation of poetry implied in Dante's Commedia, thus,
contemporarily involves the claim of a substantial weakness of the
institutional religious discourse.
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