Overview

The Oxford Handbook of Dante contains forty-four specially written chapters that provide a thorough and creative reading of Dante's oeuvre. It gathers an intergenerational and international team of scholars encompassing diverse approaches from the fields of Anglo-American, Italian, and continental scholarship and spanning several disciplines: philology, material culture, history, religion, art history, visual studies, theory from the classical to the contemporary, queer, post- and de-colonial, and feminist studies. The volume combines a rigorous reassessment of Dante's formation, themes, and sources, with a theoretically up-to-date focus on textuality, thereby offering a new critical Dante. The volume is divided into seven sections: 'Texts and Textuality'; 'Dialogues'; 'Transforming Knowledge'; Space(s) and Places'; 'A Passionate Selfhood'; 'A Non-linear Dante'; and 'Nachleben'. It seeks to challenge the Commedia-centric approach (the conviction that notwithstanding its many contradictions, Dante's works move towards the great reservoir of poetry and ideas that is the Commedia), in order to bring to light a non-teleological way in which these works relate amongst themselves. Plurality and the openness of interpretation appear as Dante's very mark, coexisting with the attempt to create an all-encompassing mastership. The Handbook suggests what is exciting about Dante now and indicates where Dante scholarship is going, or can go, in a global context.

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Author:   Manuele Gragnolati (Full Professor of Medieval Italian Literature, Full Professor of Medieval Italian Literature, Sorbonne Université) ,  Elena Lombardi (Professor of Italian Literature and Paget Toynbee Fellow, Professor of Italian Literature and Paget Toynbee Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford) ,  Francesca Southerden (Associate Professor of Medieval Italian, Associate Professor of Medieval Italian, Somerville College, Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.20cm , Height: 3.90cm , Length: 24.70cm
Weight:   1.346kg
ISBN:  

9780198883876

ISBN 10:   0198883870
Pages:   784
Publication Date:   22 June 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Manuele Gragnolati, Elena Lombardi, and Francesca Southerden: Introduction. Dante Unbound: A Vulnerable Life and the Openness of Interpretation Part I: Texts and Textuality 1: Justin Steinberg: The author 2: Lina Bolzoni: Memory 3: Mary Carruthers: Reading 4: Martin Eisner: Materiality of the text and manuscript culture 5: Fabio Zinelli: The manuscript tradition, or on editing Dante 6: Luca Fiorentini: Commentary (both by Dante and on Dante) 7: Akash Kumar: Digital Dante Part II: Dialogues 8: Zygmunt G. Baranski: The Classics 9: Antonio Montefusco: Roman de la Rose 10: William Burgwinkle: Troubadours 11: Roberto Rea: Early Italian lyric 12: Fabian Alfie: Comic culture 13: Gervase Rosser: Visual culture Part III: Transforming Knowledge 14: Franziska Meier: Encyclopaedism 15: Natascia Tonelli: Medicine 16: Simon Gilson: Visual theory 17: Diego Quaglioni: The law 18: Tristan Kay: Politics 19: Pasquale Porro: Philosophy and theology 20: Alessandro Vettori: Religion 21: Elena Lombardi: Poetry Part IV: Space(s) and places 22: Giuliano Milani: Florence and Rome 23: Elisa Brilli: Civitas/Community 24: Karla Mallette: The Mediterranean 25: Brenda Deen Schildgen: The East 26: Johannes Bartuschat: Exile 27: Theodore J. Cachey, Jr.: Travelling/wandering/mapping 28: Peter Hawkins: Dante's other worlds Part V: A passionate selfhood 29: Manuele Gragnolati: Eschatological anthropology 30: Heather Webb: Language 31: Bernard McGinn: The mystical 32: Cary Howie: Bodies on fire Part VI: A non-linear Dante 33: Nicolò Crisafi: The master narrative and its paradoxes 34: Jennifer Rushworth: Conversion, palinody, traces 35: Francesca Southerden: The lyric mode 36: Teodolinda Barolini: Errancy: A brief history of Dante's Ferm Voler Part VII: Nachleben 37: Martin McLaughlin: Translations 38: Rossend Arqués Corominas: Dante and the performing arts 39: John David Rhodes: Dante on screen 40: Daniela Caselli: Modernist Dante 41: Lino Pertile: Dante and the Shoah 42: Jason Allen-Paisant: Dante in Caribbean poetics: Language, power, race 43: Gary Cestaro: Queering Dante 44: Marguerite Waller: A decolonial feminist Dante: Imperial historiography and gender

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The handsome tome contains 45 remarkably diverse essays covering multiple aspects of Dante Studies. Scholars from across Europe and America examine everything from the transmission of texts and their making, through the knowledge and traditions of Dante's own times, to his afterlife in politics and the arts up to today. * Dr Mark Vernon, Church Times *

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Manuele Gragnolati, Co-editor, is Professor of Medieval Italian Literature at Sorbonne Université, Associate Director of the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, and Senior Research Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford. He is the author of Experiencing the Afterlife: Soul and Body in Dante and Medieval Culture (2005) and Amor che move. Linguaggio del corpo e forma del desiderio in Dante and Medieval Culture (2013), and the co-editor of several volumes, including Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages (2012) and Vita nova. Fiore. Epistola XIII (2018). Elena Lombardi is Professor of Italian Literature at Oxford, and the Paget Toynbee Fellow at Balliol College. She is the author of The Syntax of Desire: Language and Love in Augustine, the Modistae and Dante (2007), The Wings of the Doves: Love and Desire in Dante and Medieval Culture (2012), and Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante (2018). Francesca Southerden is Associate Professor of Medieval Italian at Somerville College, Oxford. She has written several articles on Dante and Petrarch and is author of Landscapes of Desire in the Poetry of Vittorio Sereni (2012). She is currently working on Dante and Petrarch in the Garden of Language.

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