Overview
A full-scale reading of Dante’s Paradiso that incorporates contemporary and historical Dante scholarship and modern critical theory
Reads the text as ‘modern’, and balances both Dante’s theology and present-day secularity
Draws on modern theoretical work on allegory, psychoanalysis, gender, and deconstruction
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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, USAAuthors and Affiliations
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Book Title: The Poetry of Dante's Paradiso
Book Subtitle: Lives Almost Divine, Spirits that Matter
Authors: Jeremy Tambling
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65628-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65627-0Published: 09 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65630-0Published: 09 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-65628-7Published: 08 March 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 314
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Medieval Literature, Literary History, Literary Theory, Poetry and Poetics, Literature, general, Classical and Antique Literature