Dante's Vita Nuova and the New Testament - Hermeneutics and the Poetics of Revelation

Modelling knowledge as revelation and theology as poetry, this powerful new reading of the Vita nuova not only challenges Dante scholars to reconsider the book's speculative emphases but also offers the general reader an accessible yet penetrating exploration of some of the Western tradition's most far-reaching ideas surrounding love and knowledge. Dante's 'little book', included in full here in an original parallel translation, captures in its first emergence the same revolutionary ferment that would later become manifest both in the larger oeuvre of this great European writer and in the literature of the entire Western canon. William Franke demonstrates how Dante's youthful poetic autobiography disrupts sectarian thinking and reconciles the seeming contraries of divine revelation and human invention, while also providing the means for understanding religious revelation in the Bible. Ultimately, this revolutionary unification of Scripture and poetry shows the intimate working of love at the source of inspired knowing.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2023
Authors:	William Franke
Pages:	264
ISBN-13:	978-1-00-901381-9
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-00-901381-5
Barcode:	9781009013819

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