Accepting Dante's prophetic truth claims on their own terms,
Teodolinda Barolini proposes a "detheologized" reading as a global
new approach to the "Divine Comedy." Not aimed at excising
theological concerns from Dante, this approach instead attempts to
break out of the hermeneutic guidelines that Dante structured into
his poem and that have resulted in theologized readings whose
outcomes have been overdetermined by the poet. By detheologizing,
the reader can emerge from this poet's hall of mirrors and discover
the narrative techniques that enabled Dante to forge a true
fiction. Foregrounding the formal exigencies that Dante masked as
ideology, Barolini moves from the problems of beginning to those of
closure, focusing always on the narrative journey. Her
investigation--which treats such topics as the visionary and the
poet, the One and the many, narrative and time--reveals some of the
transgressive paths trodden by a master of mimesis, some of the
ways in which Dante's poetic adventuring is indeed, according to
his own lights, Ulyssean.
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