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Elsa Morante's Politics of Writing is a collected volume of
twenty-one essays written by Morante specialists and international
scholars. Essays gather attention on four broad critical topics,
namely the relationship Morante entertained with the arts, cinema,
theatre, and the visual arts; new critical approaches to her four
novels; treatment of body and sexual politics; and Morante's
prophetic voice as it emerges in both her literary works and her
essayistic writings. Essays focus on Elsa Morante's strategies to
address her wide disinterest (and contempt) for the Italian
intellectual status quo of her time, regardless of its political
side, while showing at once her own kind of ideological commitment.
Further, contributors tackle the ways in which Morante's writings
shape classical oppositions such as engagement and enchantment with
the world, sin and repentance, self-reflection, and corporality, as
well as how her engagement in the visual arts, theatre, and
cinematic adaptations of her works garner further perspectives to
her stories and characters. Her works-particularly the novels
Menzogna e sortilegio (House of Liars, 1948), La Storia: Romanzo
(History: A Novel, 1974) and, more explicitly, Aracoeli (Aracoeli,
1982)-foreshadowed and advanced tenets and structures later
affirmed by postmodernism, namely the fragmentation of narrative
cells, rhizomatic narratives, lack of a linear temporal
consistency, and meta- and self-reflective processes.
This book takes Alighieri Dante's multifaceted discourse of desire
as a platform in investigating medieval concepts of desire in all
their multiplicity, fragmentation, and interrelation, focusing on
the intersection between theories of language and theories of
desire in the Middle Ages.
Elsa Morante's Politics of Writing is a collected volume of
twenty-one essays written by Morante specialists and international
scholars. Essays gather attention on four broad critical topics,
namely the relationship Morante entertained with the arts, cinema,
theatre, and the visual arts; new critical approaches to her four
novels; treatment of body and sexual politics; and Morante's
prophetic voice as it emerges in both her literary works and her
essayistic writings. Essays focus on Elsa Morante's strategies to
address her wide disinterest (and contempt) for the Italian
intellectual status quo of her time, regardless of its political
side, while showing at once her own kind of ideological commitment.
Further, contributors tackle the ways in which Morante's writings
shape classical oppositions such as engagement and enchantment with
the world, sin and repentance, self-reflection, and corporality, as
well as how her engagement in the visual arts, theatre, and
cinematic adaptations of her works garner further perspectives to
her stories and characters. Her works-particularly the novels
Menzogna e sortilegio (House of Liars, 1948), La Storia: Romanzo
(History: A Novel, 1974) and, more explicitly, Aracoeli (Aracoeli,
1982)-foreshadowed and advanced tenets and structures later
affirmed by postmodernism, namely the fragmentation of narrative
cells, rhizomatic narratives, lack of a linear temporal
consistency, and meta- and self-reflective processes.
This volume takes Dante's rich and multifaceted discourse of
desire, from the Vita Nova to the Commedia, as a point of departure
in investigating medieval concepts of desire in all their
multiplicity, fragmentation and interrelation. As well as offering
several original contributions on this fundamental aspect of
Dante's work, it seeks to situate the Florentine more effectively
within the broader spectrum of medieval culture and to establish
greater intellectual exchange between Dante scholars and those from
other disciplines. The volume is also notable for its openness to
diverse critical and methodological approaches. In considering the
extent to which modern theoretical paradigms can be used to shed
light upon the Middle Ages, it will interest those engaged with
questions of critical theory as well as medieval culture.
Essays investigating the question of time, and how it was
perceived, both in philosophical/religious terms, and in reality.
How was time experienced in the Middle Ages? What attitudes
informed people's awareness of its passing - especially when
tensions between eternity and human time shaped perceptions in
profound and often unexpected ways? Is it a human universal or
culturally specific - or both? The essays here offer a range of
perspectives on and approaches to personal, artistic, literary,
ecclesiastical and visionary responses to time during this period.
They cover a wide and diverse variety of material, from historical
prose to lyrical verse, and from liturgical and visionary writing
to textiles and images, both real and imagined, across the literary
and devotional cultures of England, Italy, Germany and Russia. From
anxieties about misspent time to moments of pure joy in the here
and now, from concerns about worldly affairs to experiences of
being freed from the trappings of time, the volume demonstrates how
medieval cultures and societies engaged with and reflected on their
own temporalities.
The volume assesses performative structures within a variety of
medieval forms of textuality, from vernacular literature to records
of parliamentary proceedings, from prayer books to musical
composition. Three issues are central to the volume: the role of
ritual speech acts; the way in which authorship can be seen as
created within medieval texts rather than as a given category;
finally, phenomena of voice, created and situated between citation
and repetition, especially in forms which appropriate and transform
literary tradition. The volume encompasses articles by historians
and musicologists as well as literary scholars. It spans European
literature from the West (French, German, Italian) to the East
(Church Slavonic), vernacular and Latin; it contrasts modes of
liturgical meditation in the Western and Eastern Church with
secular plays and songs, and it brings together studies on the
character of 'voice' in major medieval authors such as Dante with
examples of Dante-reception in the early twentieth century.
The Oxford Handbook of Dante contains forty-four specially written
chapters that provide a thorough and creative reading of Dante's
oeuvre. It gathers an intergenerational and international team of
scholars encompassing diverse approaches from the fields of
Anglo-American, Italian, and continental scholarship and spanning
several disciplines: philology, material culture, history,
religion, art history, visual studies, theory from the classical to
the contemporary, queer, post- and de-colonial, and feminist
studies. The volume combines a rigorous reassessment of Dante's
formation, themes, and sources, with a theoretically up-to-date
focus on textuality, thereby offering a new critical Dante. The
volume is divided into seven sections: 'Texts and Textuality';
'Dialogues'; 'Transforming Knowledge'; Space(s) and Places'; 'A
Passionate Selfhood'; 'A Non-linear Dante'; and 'Nachleben'. It
seeks to challenge the Commedia-centric approach (the conviction
that notwithstanding its many contradictions, Dante's works move
towards the great reservoir of poetry and ideas that is the
Commedia), in order to bring to light a non-teleological way in
which these works relate amongst themselves. Plurality and the
openness of interpretation appear as Dante's very mark, coexisting
with the attempt to create an all-encompassing mastership. The
Handbook suggests what is exciting about Dante now and indicate
where Dante scholarship is going, or can go, in a global context.
Experiencing the Afterlife provides the first sustained analysis of
popular, vernacular depictions of the afterlife written in Italy
before the Divine Comedy by authors such as Uguccione da Lodi,
Giacomino da Verona, and Bonvesin da la Riva. Manuele Gragnolati
uses his readings of these poets to provide a new interpretation of
Dante’s work. Combining elements from several disciplines, he
investigates the richness of high medieval eschatology and the
concept of personal identity it expresses. Gragnolati is
particularly concerned with how the notions of body and pain
characteristic of medieval spirituality and devotion inform the
eschatological representations of the time, especially in their
paradoxical urge to stress at once the physical experience of the
separated soul and the final necessity of bodily resurrection. By
integrating lesser-known texts and scholarship from other
disciplines into the specialized field of Dante studies, Gragnolati
sheds new light on some of the most vigorously debated and crucial
questions raised by the Divine Comedy, including the embryological
discourse of Purgatorio 25, the relation between the soul’s
experience of pain in Purgatory and the devotion that late medieval
culture expressed toward Christ’s suffering, and the significance
of the audacious vision of resurrected bodies that Dante the
pilgrim enjoys at the end of his journey. At the same time,
Gragnolati brings these questions back into contemporary
discussions of medieval eschatology and opens new perspectives for
current and future work on embodiment and identity. Scholars and
students of Dante and Italian studies, as well as those in medieval
history, religion, culture, and art history, will be rewarded by
the fresh insights contained in Experiencing the Afterlife.
Experiencing the Afterlife provides the first sustained analysis of
popular, vernacular depictions of the afterlife written in Italy
before the Divine Comedy by authors such as Uguccione da Lodi,
Giacomino da Verona, and Bonvesin da la Riva. Manuele Gragnolati
uses his readings of these poets to provide a new interpretation of
Dante's work. Combining elements from several disciplines, he
investigates the richness of high medieval eschatology and the
concept of personal identity it expresses. Gragnolati is
particularly concerned with how the notions of body and pain
characteristic of medieval spirituality and devotion inform the
eschatological representations of the time, especially in their
paradoxical urge to stress at once the physical experience of the
separated soul and the final necessity of bodily resurrection. By
integrating lesser-known texts and scholarship from other
disciplines into the specialized field of Dante studies, Gragnolati
sheds new light on some of the most vigorously debated and crucial
questions raised by the Divine Comedy, including the embryological
discourse of Purgatorio 25, the relation between the soul's
experience of pain in Purgatory and the devotion that late medieval
culture expressed toward Christ's suffering, and the significance
of the audacious vision of resurrected bodies that Dante the
pilgrim enjoys at the end of his journey. At the same time,
Gragnolati brings these questions back into contemporary
discussions of medieval eschatology and opens new perspectives for
current and future work on embodiment and identity. Scholars and
students of Dante and Italian studies, as well as those in medieval
history, religion, culture, and art history, will be rewarded by
the fresh insights contained in Experiencing the Afterlife.
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