Dante and Polish Writers
From Romanticism to the Present
Andrea Ceccherelli, Andrea Ceccherelli
- 180 pages
- English
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Dante and Polish Writers
From Romanticism to the Present
Andrea Ceccherelli, Andrea Ceccherelli
About This Book
Dante and Polish Writers: From Romanticism to the Present explores the phenomenon of Polish Danteism from a hermeneutic perspective. The chapters shed light on a series of "encounters" of eminent Polish writers with Dante and the Divine Comedy, resulting in original interpretations, creative reworkings, and a wealth of intertextual references testifying to a dialogue that has always been – and still is – alive, not excluding antagonism and bitter controversy. The contributors are all scholars of Polish literature with comparative expertise, teaching in Italian and Polish universities, which ensures a consistently focused point of view on the receptive context and the ways in which it is affected by the confrontation with Dante. The hermeneutic horizon ranges from the Inferno-like reading of the inhuman lands with which history abounds, to the metaphysical yearning underlying Dante's "poetics of transhumanizing, " to recent perspectives related to the posthuman and storytelling.