Buch, Englisch, Band 116, 269 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 631 g
Reihe: Mimesis
Music, Dance, and Drama in the "Commedia"
Buch, Englisch, Band 116, 269 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 631 g
Reihe: Mimesis
ISBN: 978-3-11-140554-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Through an historical and philological lens, this book explores passages from Dante’s which reveal elements inspired byprocessions, pageants, liturgical drama, psalm singing, or dance performance. The sacred poem finds influence in medieval theories of the performing arts as well as actual performances which Dante would have seen in churches or town squares. opens a new perspective from which to consider the : Dante expected his contemporary readers to recognize references to and echoes of psalms, sacred plays, and performative practices. Twenty-first-century readers are tasked with reconstructing a cultural framework which allows us to grasp those same textual references.
From the dramatization of the harrowing of hell in IX, to Beatrice’s celebratory return on top of Mount Purgatory, to the songs of the blessed, this study connects Dante’s language to coeval theoretical and practical texts about performance.
If hell is "the Middle Age’s ," purgatory stages a performed purification through songs and acting, while paradise offers the spectacle of blessed spirits within the heavenly spheres as an aid to human understanding (. IV 28–39).
Zielgruppe
Literary scholars, Dante scholars, medievalists, Italianists, mus
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Italienische Literatur
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein
