Dante and Augustine

Linguistics, Poetics, Hermeneutics

AvSimone Marchesi

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

At several junctures in his career, Dante paused to consider what it meant to be a writer. The questions he posed were both simple and wide-ranging: How does language, in particular 'poetic language,' work? Can poetry be translated? What is the relationship between a text and its commentary? Who controls the meaning of a literary work? In Dante and Augustine, Simone Marchesi re-examines these questions in light of the influence that Augustine's reflections on similar issues exerted on Dante's sense of his task as a poet.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 a versatile thinker, committed to a radical defence of poetry and yet always ready to rethink, revise, and rewrite his own positions on matters of linguistics, poetics, and hermeneutics.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-08-07
Mått:152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt:390 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Toronto Italian Studies
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
ISBN:9781487526184

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Poesi inom Skönlitteratur
Språkvetenskap och lingvistik inom Språk och ordböcker
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Mer om författaren

Simone Marchesi is a professor of French and Italian at Princeton University.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction Linguisticsa. The nature of language and the common project of Convivio and De vulgari eloquentia: enucleare aliis conceptum b. The quest for a perfect language: Latin as grammar c. An alternative model: Augustine againd. Concetto: the redefinition of conceptual speech in the Commedia e. Concetto again: Dante's incarnational poetics in Paradiso Poeticsa. The making of poetry: verba and sentential as discretive mixtab. Meaning in poetry: the task of prosec. Convenientia across secular and biblical writingsd. On translating meaning: biblical poetry and the sweetness of the Psalms Hermeneuticsa. The burden of interpretation: authorial intention in Dante's "minor" worksb. Per te poeta fui, per te cristiano: texts and authors framing Statius' Christianityc. Reading beyond the author: two stumbling blocks in Purgatorio XXIId. Augustine's regula caritatis and the interpretation of the Commediae. Augustine's hermeneutics and the poetics of the Spirit ConclusionWorks Cited