The Oxford Handbook of Dante

by Manuele Gragnolati (Editor), Elena Lombardi (Editor), Francesca Southerden (Editor)

Overview

The Oxford Handbook of Dante contains forty-four specially written chapters that provide a thorough and creative reading of Dante's oeuvre. It gathers an intergenerational and international team of scholars encompassing diverse approaches from the fields of Anglo-American, Italian, and continental scholarship and spanning several disciplines: philology, material culture, history, religion, art history, visual studies, theory from the classical to the contemporary, queer, post- and de-colonial, and feminist studies. The volume combines a rigorous reassessment of Dante's formation, themes, and sources, with a theoretically up-to-date focus on textuality, thereby offering a new critical Dante. The volume is divided into seven sections: 'Texts and Textuality'; 'Dialogues'; 'Transforming Knowledge'; Space(s) and Places'; 'A Passionate Selfhood'; 'A Non-linear Dante'; and 'Nachleben'. It seeks to challenge the Commedia-centric approach (the conviction that notwithstanding its many contradictions, Dante's works move towards the great reservoir of poetry and ideas that is the Commedia), in order to bring to light a non-teleological way in which these works relate amongst themselves. Plurality and the openness of interpretation appear as Dante's very mark, coexisting with the attempt to create an all-encompassing mastership. The Handbook suggests what is exciting about Dante now and indicate where Dante scholarship is going, or can go, in a global context.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780192552594
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	03/25/2021
Series:	Oxford Handbooks
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	752
Sales rank:	755,280
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Manuele Gragnolati, Co-editor, is Professor of Medieval Italian Literature at Sorbonne Universit?, Associate Director of the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, and Senior Research Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford. He is the author of Experiencing the Afterlife: Soul and Body in Dante and Medieval Culture (2005) and Amor che move. Linguaggio del corpo e forma del desiderio in Dante and Medieval Culture (2013), and the co-editor of several volumes, including Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages (2012) and Vita nova. Fiore. Epistola XIII (2018). Elena Lombardi is Professor of Italian Literature at Oxford, and the Paget Toynbee Fellow at Balliol College. She is the author of The Syntax of Desire: Language and Love in Augustine, the Modistae and Dante (2007), The Wings of the Doves: Love and Desire in Dante and Medieval Culture (2012), and Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante (2018). Francesca Southerden is Associate Professor of Medieval Italian at Somerville College, Oxford. She has written several articles on Dante and Petrarch and is author of Landscapes of Desire in the Poetry of Vittorio Sereni (2012). She is currently working on Dante and Petrarch in the Garden of Language.

Table of Contents

Introduction. Dante Unbound: A Vulnerable Life and the Openness of Interpretation, Manuele Gragnolati, Elena Lombardi, and Francesca SoutherdenPart I: Texts and Textuality1. The author, Justin Steinberg2. Memory, Lina Bolzoni3. Reading, Mary Carruthers4. Materiality of the text and manuscript culture, Martin Eisner5. The manuscript tradition, or on editing Dante, Fabio Zinelli6. Commentary (both by Dante and on Dante), Luca Fiorentini7. Digital Dante, Akash KumarPart II: Dialogues8. The Classics, Zygmunt G. Baranski9. Roman de la Rose, Antonio Montefusco10. Troubadours, William Burgwinkle11. Early Italian lyric, Roberto Rea12. Comic culture, Fabian Alfie13. Visual culture, Gervase RosserPart III: Transforming Knowledge14. Encyclopaedism, Franziska Meier15. Medicine, Natascia Tonelli16. Visual theory, Simon Gilson17. The law, Diego Quaglioni18. Politics, Tristan Kay19. Philosophy and theology, Pasquale Porro20. Religion, Alessandro Vettori21. Poetry, Elena LombardiPart IV: Space(s) and places22. Florence and Rome, Giuliano Milani23. Civitas/Community, Elisa Brilli24. The Mediterranean, Karla Mallette25. The East, Brenda Deen Schildgen26. Exile, Johannes Bartuschat27 Travelling/wandering/mapping, Theodore J. Cachey, Jr.28. Dante's other worlds, Peter HawkinsPart V: A passionate selfhood29. Eschatological anthropology, Manuele Gragnolati30. Language, Heather Webb31. The mystical, Bernard McGinn32. Bodies on fire, Cary HowiePart VI: A non-linear Dante33. The master narrative and its paradoxes, Nicolò Crisafi34. Conversion, palinody, traces, Jennifer Rushworth35. The lyric mode, Francesca Southerden36. Errancy: A brief history of Dante's Ferm Voler, Teodolinda BaroliniPart VII: Nachleben37. Translations, Martin McLaughlin38. Dante and the performing arts, Rossend Arqués Corominas39. Dante on screen, John David Rhodes40. Modernist Dante, Daniela Caselli41. Dante and the Shoah, Lino Pertile42. Dante in Caribbean poetics: Language, power, race, Jason Allen-Paisant43. Queering Dante, Gary Cestaro44. A decolonial feminist Dante: Imperial historiography and gender, Marguerite Waller

Editorial Reviews

"The Handbook lives up to the most stringent expectations." — F. Regina Psaki, Modern Language Review

"The handsome tome contains 45 remarkably diverse essays covering multiple aspects of Dante Studies. Scholars from across Europe and America examine everything from the transmission of texts and their making, through the knowledge and traditions of Dante's own times, to his afterlife in politics and the arts up to today." — Dr Mark Vernon, Church Times

"I heartily recommend this volume as a true feast for the mind." — Christopher Kleinhenz, Speculum 99/1

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