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100 1 Freccero, John,|eauthor
240 10 Essays.|kSelections
245 10 In Dante's wake :|breading from medieval to modern in the
Augustinian tradition /|cJohn Freccero ; edited by
Danielle Callegari and Melissa Swain
264 1 New York :|bFordham University Press,|c2015
300 1 online resource (204 pages) :|billustrations
336 text|2rdacontent
337 computer|2rdamedia
338 online resource|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references and index
505 8 Machine generated contents note: -- Table of Contents --
Acknowledgments -- Editors' introduction -- List of
Figures -- Shipwreck in the Prologue -- The Portrait of
Francesca: Inferno 5 -- Epitaph for Guido -- The Eternal
Image of the Father -- Allegory and Autobiography -- In
the Wake of the Argo on a Boundless Sea -- The Fig Tree
and the Laurel -- Medusa and the Madonna of Forlì:
Political Sexuality in Machiavelli -- Donne's Valediction:
Forbidding Mourning -- Zeno's Last Cigarette --
Bibliography -- Index
520 "Waking 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"--|cProvided by publisher
520 "In Dante's Wake presents a collection of essays from
internationally renowned Dante scholar John Freccero.
Penetrating first the Divine Comedy and then the powerful
influence of Dante on those who followed him, Freccero's
volume is an invaluable companion for any reader of Dante"
--|cProvided by publisher
588 Description based on print version record
590 Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016.
Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to
ProQuest affiliated libraries
600 00 Dante Alighieri,|d1265-1321.|tDivina commedia
600 00 Dante Alighieri,|d1265-1321|xCriticism and interpretation
600 00 Dante Alighieri,|d1265-1321|xInfluence
655 4 Electronic books
700 1 Callegari, Danielle,|eeditor
700 1 Swain, Melissa,|eeditor
776 08 |iPrint version:|aFreccero, John.|tIn Dante's wake :
reading from medieval to modern in the Augustinian
tradition.|dNew York : Fordham University Press, 2015
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