LEADER 04494nam 22008655 450 001 9910810317703321 005 20240418012409.0 010 $a0-8232-6431-9 010 $a0-8232-6676-1 010 $a0-8232-6429-7 010 $a0-8232-6430-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823264308 035 $a(CKB)3710000000747351 035 $a(DE-B1597)555054 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823264308 035 $a(OCoLC)917959022 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3430734 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4680912 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000747351 100 $a20200723h20152015 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aIn Dante's Wake $eReading from Medieval to Modern in the Augustinian Tradition /$fJohn Freccero; Danielle Callegari, Melissa Swain 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aNew York, NY : $cFordham University Press, $d[2015] 210 4$d©2015 215 $a1 online resource (286 p.) 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tList of Figures -- $tPreface -- $tAuthor?s Acknowledgments -- $tEditors? Acknowledgments -- $tShipwreck in the Prologue -- $tThe Portrait of Francesca: Inferno 5 -- $tEpitaph for Guido -- $tThe Eternal Image of the Father -- $tAllegory and Autobiography -- $tIn the Wake of the Argo on a Boundless Sea -- $tThe Fig Tree and the Laurel -- $tMedusa and the Madonna of Forlì -- $tDonne?s ?Valediction: Forbidding Mourning? -- $tZeno?s Last Cigarette -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aWaking to find himself shipwrecked on a strange shore before a dark wood, the pilgrim of the Divine Comedy realizes he must set his sights higher and guide his ship to a radically different port. Starting on the sand of that very shore with Dante, John Freccero begins retracing the famous voyage recounted by the poet nearly 700 years ago.Freccero follows pilgrim and poet through the Comedy and then beyond, inviting readers both uninitiated and accomplished to join him in navigating this complex medieval masterpiece and its influence on later literature. Perfectly impenetrable in its poetry and unabashedly ambitious in its content, the Divine Comedy is the cosmos collapsed on itself, heavy with dense matter and impossible to expand. Yet Dante?s great triumph is seen in the tiny, subtle fragments that make up the seamless whole, pieces that the poet painstakingly sewed together to form a work that insinuates itself into the reader and inspires the work of the next author. Freccero magnifies the most infinitesimal elements of that intricate construction to identify self-similar parts, revealing the full breadth of the great poem.Using this same technique, Freccero then turns to later giants of literature? Petrarch, Machiavelli, Donne, Joyce, and Svevo?demonstrating how these authors absorbed these smallest parts and reproduced Dante in their own work. In the process, he confronts questions of faith, friendship, gender, politics, poetry, and sexuality, so that traveling with Freccero, the reader will both cross unknown territory and reimagine familiar faces, swimming always in Dante?s wake. 606 $aAllegory 606 $aConsciousness 606 $aDante 606 $aNovel 606 $aTheology 606 $aconversion 606 $aepic 606 $amedieval 606 $apoetics 606 $apoetry 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval$2bisacsh 610 $aAllegory. 610 $aConsciousness. 610 $aDante. 610 $aNovel. 610 $aTheology. 610 $aconversion. 610 $aepic. 610 $amedieval. 610 $apoetics. 610 $apoetry. 615 4$aAllegory. 615 4$aConsciousness. 615 4$aDante. 615 4$aNovel. 615 4$aTheology. 615 4$aconversion. 615 4$aepic. 615 4$amedieval. 615 4$apoetics. 615 4$apoetry. 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval. 676 $a851/.1 676 $a851.1 700 $aFreccero$b John, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0200470 702 $aCallegari$b Danielle, $4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aSwain$b Melissa, $4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810317703321 996 $aIn Dante's Wake$94021328 997 $aUNINA