03180nam 2200685 450 991045655730332120200520144314.01-282-03385-997866120338581-4426-7398-210.3138/9781442673984(CKB)2430000000001470(EBL)4671434(SSID)ssj0000294160(PQKBManifestationID)11265874(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000294160(PQKBWorkID)10311729(PQKB)10827026(CaBNvSL)thg00600715 (MiAaPQ)EBC3255299(MiAaPQ)EBC4671434(DE-B1597)464404(OCoLC)946712764(OCoLC)999354741(DE-B1597)9781442673984(Au-PeEL)EBL4671434(CaPaEBR)ebr11257144(OCoLC)666915192(EXLCZ)99243000000000147020160921h20002000 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDivine dialectic Dante's incarnational poetry /Guy P. RaffaToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2000.©20001 online resource (267 p.)Toronto Italian StudiesIncludes index.0-8020-4856-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Texts and Translations -- Introduction: Dante's Incarnational Dialectic -- 1. Divisive Dialectic: Incarnational Failure and Parody -- 2. Incarnational Dialectic Writ Large -- 3. Dante's Incarnational Dialectic of Martyrdom and Mission -- Notes -- IndexIn 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.Toronto Italian studiesIncarnation in literatureDialectic in literatureElectronic books.Incarnation in literature.Dialectic in literature.851/.1Raffa Guy P.1047655MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456557303321Divine dialectic2475367UNINA