
Dante's "Vita Nova"
A Collaborative Reading
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Dante's "Vita Nova"
A Collaborative Reading
About this book
This original volume proposes a novel way of reading Dante's Vita nova, exemplified in a rich diversity of scholarly approaches to the text.
This groundbreaking volume represents the fruit of a two-year-long series of international seminars aimed at developing a fresh way of reading Dante's Vita nova. By analyzing each of its forty-two chapters individually, focus is concentrated on the Vita nova in its textual and historical context rather than on its relationship to the Divine Comedy. This decoupling has freed the contributors to draw attention to various important literary features of the text, including its rich and complex polysemy, as well as its structural fluidity. The volume likewise offers insights into Dante's social environment, his relationships with other poets, and Dante's evolving vision of his poetry's scope. Using a variety of critical methodologies and hermeneutical approaches, this volume offers scholars an opportunity to reread the Vita nova in a renewed context and from a diversity of literary, cultural, and ideological perspectives.
Contributors: Zygmunt G. Bara?ski, Heather Webb, Claire E. Honess, Brian F. Richardson, Ruth Chester, Federica Pich, Matthew Treherne, Catherine Keen, Jennifer Rushworth, Daragh O'Connell, Sophie V. Fuller, Giulia Gaimari, Emily Kate Price, Manuele Gragnolati, Elena Lombardi, Francesca Southerden, Rebecca Bowen, Nicolò Crisafi, Lachlan Hughes, Franco Costantini, David Bowe, Tristan Kay, Filippo Gianferrari, Simon Gilson, Rebekah Locke, Luca Lombardo, Peter Dent, George Ferzoco, Paola Nasti, Marco Grimaldi, David G. Lummus, Helena Phillips-Robins, Aist? Kiltinavi?i?t?, Alessia Carrai, Ryan Pepin, Valentina Mele, Katherine Powlesland, Federica Coluzzi, K. P. Clarke, Nicolò Maldina, Theodore J. Cachey Jr., Chiara Sbordoni, Lorenzo Dell'Oso, and Anne C. Leone.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface, by Zygmunt G. Barański and Heather Webb
- Vita nova I–IV [1–2.5]: Things Never Said about Any Woman, by Claire E. Honess
- Vita nova V–XII [2.6–5.24]: A Lover’s Trials, by Catherine Keen
- Vita nova XIII–XVIII [6–10.11]: Not Just a Passing Phase, by Manuele Gragnolati, Elena Lombardi, and Francesca Southerden
- Vita nova XIX–XXIV [10.12–15.11]: A New and More Noble Theme, by Tristan Kay
- Vita nova XXV–XXVII [16–18]: Literature as Truth, by Paola Nasti
- Vita nova XXVIII–XXXIV [19–23]: The Poetics of a New Affective Community, by Heather Webb
- Vita nova XXXV–XXXIX [24–28]: The Donna Gentile Episode, by Simon Gilson
- Vita nova XL–XLII [29–31]: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by Theodore J. Cachey, Jr.
- Notes
- Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index