Dante for the New Millenium

✍ Scribed by Teodolinda Barolini, H. Wayne Storey

• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 528
• Series: (Fordham Series in Medieval Studies)
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The twenty-five original essays in this remarkable book constitute both a state of the art survey of Dante scholarship and a manifesto for new understandings of one of the world’s great poets.

The fruit of an historic conference called by the Dante Society of America, the essays confront a range of important questions. What theories, methods, and issues are unique to Dante scholarship? How are they changing? What is the essence of the distinctive American Dante tradition? Why―and how―do we read Dante in today’s global, postmodern culture?

From John Ahern on the first copies of the Commedia to Peter Hawkins and Rachel Jacoff on Dante after modernism, the essays shed brilliant new light on Dante’s texts, his world, and what we make of his legacy.

The contributors: John Ahern, H. Wayne Storey, Guglielmo Gorni, Teodolinda Barolini, Gary P. Cestaro, Lino Pertile, F. Regina Psaki, Steven Botterill, Giuseppe Mazzotta, Alison Cornish, Robert M. Durling, Manuele Gragnolati, Giuliana Carugati, Susan Noakes, Zygmunt Baranski, Christopher Kleinhenz, Ronald L. Martinez, Ronald Herzman, Amilcare Iannucci, Albert Russell Ascoli, Michelangelo Picone, Jessica Levenstein, David Wallace, Piero Boitani, Peter Hawkins, and Rachel Jacoff.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
Notes for an Introduction
Abbreviations
Philologies
1 What Did the First Copies of the Comedy Look Like?
2 Early Editorial Forms of Dante's Lyrics
3 Material Philology, Conjectural Philology, Philology without Adjectives
Philologies: Works Cited
Appetites
4 Beyond (Courtly) Dualism: Thinking about Gender in Dante's Lyrics
5 Queering Nature, Queering Gender: Dante and Sodomy
6 Does the Stilnovo Go to Heaven?
7 Love for Beatrice: Transcending Contradiction in the Paradiso
Appetites: Works Cited
Philosophies
8 Mysticism and Meaning in Dante's Paradiso
9 The Heaven of the Sun: Dante between Aquinas and Bonaventure
10 Vulgarizing Science: Vernacular Translation of Natural Philosophy
11 The Body and the Flesh in the Purgatorio
12 From Plurality to (Near) Unicity of Forms: Embryology in Purgatorio 25
13 Quando amor fa sentir de la sua pace
Philosophies: Works Cited
Reception
14 Virility, Nobility, and Banking: The Crossing of Discourses in the Tenzone with Forese
15 Scatology and Obscenity in Dante
16 On Dante and the Visual Arts
Reception: Works Cited
Histories
17 Dante's Jeremiads: The Fall of Jerusalem and the Burden of the New Pharisees, the Capetians, and Florence
18 From Francis to Solomon: Eschatology in the Sun
19 Already and Not Yet: Dante's Existential Eschatology
20 Dante after Dante
Histories: Works Cited
Rewritings
21 Ovid and the Exul Inmeritus
22 The Re-Formation of Marsyas in Paradiso 1
23 Dante in England
24 Moby-Dante?
25 Still Here: Dante after Modernism
Rewritings: Works Cited
Notes on Contributors
Index