LEADER 03160oam 2200445 450 001 9910768198703321 005 20231121195520.0 010 $a3-030-65628-4 035 $a(CKB)4100000011786722 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6511635 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6511635 035 $a(OCoLC)1250089039 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011786722 100 $a20211008d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe poetry of Dante's Paradiso $elives almost divine, spirits that matter /$fJeremy Tambling 210 1$aCham, Switzerland :$cSpringer,$d[2021] 210 4$dİ2021 215 $a1 online resource (320 pages) $cillustrations 311 0 $a3-030-65627-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Introduction: On Reading Paradiso: Dante's Dualism 2. Chapter 1: The Inconstant Moon, Paradiso and the Feminine 3. Chapter 2: Mercury: Roman History 4. Chapter 3: Poetry and the Violence of Venus 5. Chapter 4: 'Dancing in the Sun: The Trinity in Motion' (Paradiso 10-14) 6. Chapter 5: 'Mars and Mutilation: Florence and the Baptist' 7. Chapter 6: 'Time and Chronology in Jupiter and Saturn' (Paradiso 18-22) 8. Chapter 7: 'Fixed Stars and Diasporic Times: Paradiso 22-27' 9. Chapter 8: 'Dante's Angels: Paradiso 28 and 29' 10. Chapter 9: 'The Ultimate Vision: Multiple Relationships: Paradiso 30-33' 330 $aProfessor Tambling adds an original voice to the current surge of interest in what makes Dante's Paradiso uniquely intriguing, even in comparison to the Inferno and Purgatorio. He directly engages the question that haunts the poem: can authentic human hope sustain itself on its spacewalk through the material universe, even if it cannot foresee its end?" --Francis J. Ambrosio, Georgetown University, USA This book argues that Paradiso - Dante's vision of Heaven - is not simply affirmative. It posits that Paradiso compensates for disappointment rather than fulfils hopes, and where it moves into joy and vision, this also rationalises the experience of exile and the failure of all Dante's political hopes. The book highlights and addresses a fundamental problem in reading Dante: the assumption that he writes as a Catholic Christian, which can be off-putting and induces an overly theological and partisan reading in some commentary. Accordingly, the study argues that Dante must be read now in a post-Christian modernity. It discusses Dante's Christianity fully, and takes its details as a source of wonder and beauty which need communicating to a modern reader. Yet, the study also argues that we must read for the alterity of Dante's world from ours. 606 $aDisappointment in literature 606 $aHeaven in literature 615 0$aDisappointment in literature. 615 0$aHeaven in literature. 676 $a851.1 700 $aTambling$b Jeremy$0224091 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910768198703321 996 $aThe poetry of Dante's Paradiso$93656157 997 $aUNINA