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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807183703321

Autore

Raffa Guy P.

Titolo

Divine dialectic : Dante's incarnational poetry / / Guy P. Raffa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2000

©2000

ISBN

1-282-03385-9

9786612033858

1-4426-7398-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 p.)

Collana

Toronto Italian Studies

Disciplina

851/.1

Soggetti

Incarnation in literature

Dialectic in literature

Livres numeriques.

e-books.

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Dante's Incarnational Dialectic -- Divisive Dialectic: Incarnational Failure and Parody -- Incarnation Manque in the Vita nuova -- Dante's Infernal Web of Pride -- Incarnational Dialectic Writ Large -- Incarnational (Dis) appearances: Virgil and Beatrice -- Dialectically Marked Spirits in the Shadowed Spheres -- Incarnational Reflections and Lines -- The Poet's Incarnate Word -- Dante's Incarnational Dialectic of Martyrdom and Mission -- Lifting the Hermeneutic Veil: Circling the Cross in the Sun and Mars -- The Bitter-Sweet Lessons of Cacciaguida and Scipio -- Dante's Divine Tetragon -- Intellectual Action and Dialectical Hermeneutics.

Sommario/riassunto

"In this book, Guy Raffa offers a fresh reading of Dante's major literary works - the Divine Comedy and the Vita nuova - that combines central tenets of incarnational theology and dialectical thought to illuminate the poet's renowned ability to 'have it both ways' on issues that conventionally elicit an 'either/or' response. Viewing Dante as a poet of revision, not conversion, Raffa challenges a dominant paradigm in



Dante criticism and takes full account of the poet's unconventional approach to such conventional dichotomies as eros and spirituality, fame and humility, action and contemplation, and obedience and transgression. Divine Dialectic ultimately argues that Dante crosses textual and theological boundaries in his medieval epic to promote the paradoxical union of contradiction and resolution as a way of reading his poem and, by extension, the world itself."--Jacket