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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827468003321

Titolo

Dante's Commedia : theology as poetry / / , edited by Vittorio Montemaggi and Matthew Treherne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, 2010

ISBN

0-268-08680-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xii, 388 p

Collana

The William and Katherine Devers series in Dante studies

Altri autori (Persone)

MontemaggiVittorio

TreherneMatthew

Disciplina

851/.1

Soggetti

Theology in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Title -- Series -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Series -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations, Editions, and Translations -- Introduction -- 1. Polemics of Praise -- 2. All Smiles -- 3. In Unknowability as Love -- 4. The Poetry and Poetics of the Creation -- 5. Liturgical Personhood -- 6. Dante's Commedia and the Body of Christ -- 7. Dante's Davidic Journey -- 8. Caritas and Ecclesiology in Dante's Heaven of the Sun -- 9. Neoplatonic Metaphysics and Imagination in Dante's Commedia -- 10. "Il punto che mi vinse" -- 11. How to Do Things with Words -- AFTERWORDS -- Dante, Conversation, and Homecoming -- Dante as Inspiration for Twenty-First-Century Theology -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index of Names and Subjects -- Index of Passages from Dante's Works -- Index of Scriptural Passages.

Sommario/riassunto

A critical analysis by an international group of theologians and Dante scholars of the nexus between theology and poetry in Dante's work, especially in the Commedia.