Dante's "Vita Nova" - A Collaborative Reading

This original volume proposes a novel way of reading Dante’s Vita nova, exemplified in a rich diversity of scholarly approaches to the text. This groundbreaking volume represents the fruit of a two-year-long series of international seminars aimed at developing a fresh way of reading Dante’s Vita nova. By analyzing each of its forty-two chapters individually, focus is concentrated on the Vita nova in its textual and historical context rather than on its relationship to the Divine Comedy. This decoupling has freed the contributors to draw attention to various important literary features of the text, including its rich and complex polysemy, as well as its structural fluidity. The volume likewise offers insights into Dante’s social environment, his relationships with other poets, and Dante’s evolving vision of his poetry’s scope. Using a variety of critical methodologies and hermeneutical approaches, this volume offers scholars an opportunity to reread the Vita nova in a renewed context and from a diversity of literary, cultural, and ideological perspectives. Contributors: Zygmunt G. Barański, Heather Webb, Claire E. Honess, Brian F. Richardson, Ruth Chester, Federica Pich, Matthew Treherne, Catherine Keen, Jennifer Rushworth, Daragh O’Connell, Sophie V. Fuller, Giulia Gaimari, Emily Kate Price, Manuele Gragnolati, Elena Lombardi, Francesca Southerden, Rebecca Bowen, Nicolò Crisafi, Lachlan Hughes, Franco Costantini, David Bowe, Tristan Kay, Filippo Gianferrari, Simon Gilson, Rebekah Locke, Luca Lombardo, Peter Dent, George Ferzoco, Paola Nasti, Rebecca Bowen, Marco Grimaldi, David G. Lummus, Helena Phillips-Robins, Aistė Kiltinavi�iūtė, Alessia Carrai, Ryan Pepin, Valentina Mele, Katherine Powlesland, Simon Gilson, Federica Coluzzi, K. P. Clarke, Nicolò Maldina, Theodore J. Cachey Jr., Chiara Sbordoni, Lorenzo Dell’Oso, and Anne C. Leone.

General

Imprint:	University of Notre Dame Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature
Release date:	December 2023
First published:	2023
Editors:	Zygmunt G. Bara'nski • Heather Webb
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Pages:	510
ISBN-13:	978-0-268-20739-7
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-268-20739-9
Barcode:	9780268207397

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