Dante's Vita nuova and the New Testament

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-316-51617-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

Modelling knowledge as revelation and theology as poetry, this powerful new reading of the Vita nuova not only challenges Dante scholars to reconsider the book's speculative emphases but also offers the general reader an accessible yet penetrating exploration of some of the Western tradition's most far-reaching ideas surrounding love and knowledge. Dante's 'little book', included in full here in an original parallel translation, captures in its first emergence the same revolutionary ferment that would later become manifest both in the larger oeuvre of this great European writer and in the literature of the entire Western canon. William Franke demonstrates how Dante's youthful poetic autobiography disrupts sectarian thinking and reconciles the seeming contraries of divine revelation and human invention, while also providing the means for understanding religious revelation in the Bible. Ultimately, this revolutionary unification of Scripture and poetry shows the intimate working of love at the source of inspired knowing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Franke, William

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sonstige Religionen: Theologie, Doktrine

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: The Vita nuova as Theological Revelation through Lyrical Interpretation; 2. The New Testament Model of Salvific Reminiscence; 3. From Appearing and Imagining to Revealing through Interpreting: The Vita nuova's Hermeneutics of Witness; 4. Phenomenology versus Hermeneutics (Debate with Harrison): Revelation as Mediation; 5. History of Effect and a New Hermeneutics-Oriented Critical Paradigm; Picture Album; 6. Conclusion. The Existential Grounding of Revelation in Lyric; Coda; Epilogue: Dream Epistemology and Religious Revelation in Dante's Vita nuova; Appendix: Italian Text and English Translation of the Vita nuova.

Über Autor(innen)

Franke, William
William Franke is Professor of Comparative Literature and Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University and Visiting Professor at the University of Navarra. He is a research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung and has been Fulbright-University of Salzburg Distinguished Chair in Intercultural Theology and Study of Religions. His books include Dante's Interpretive Journey (1996), On What Cannot Be Said (2007), Poetry and Apocalypse (2009), Dante and the Sense of Transgression (2013), A Philosophy of the Unsayable (2014), The Revelation of Imagination: From the Bible and Homer through Virgil and Augustine to Dante (2015), Secular Scriptures: Modern Theological Poetics in the Wake of Dante (2016), A Theology of Literature (2017), and On the Universality of What is Not: The Apophatic Turn in Critical Thinking (2020).