Examining Dante's life-long dialogue with Augustine from a new point of view, Marchesi goes beyond traditional inquiries to engage more technical questions relating to Dante's evolving ideas on how language, poetry, and interpretation should work. In this engaging literary analysis, Dante emerges as
Dante and Augustine: Linguistics, Poetics, Hermeneutics
β Scribed by Simone Marchesi
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 267
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Examining Dante's life-long dialogue with Augustine from a new point of view, Marchesi goes beyond traditional inquiries to engage more technical questions relating to Dante's evolving ideas on how language, poetry, and interpretation should work.
β¦ Table of Contents
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Linguistics
2 Poetics
3 Hermeneutics
4 Augustine in Dante: Three Readings
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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