Metaphor in Dante

1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-1-900755-63-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 317 g

The heart of the book is an analysis of metaphor in the Paradiso, but the volume also reaches back to Dante's earliest lyrics and concludes with a look forward to Petrarch's use of this important device.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gibbons, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; List o f Abbreviations; Introduction 1 Defining Metaphor: Problems and Issues 2 Metaphor in the Early Italian Lyric and Dantes Lyric Poems 3 Metaphor from the Inferno and Purgatorio to the Paradiso 4 The Metaphorical Word 5 Dantes Celestial ‘Grammar’ of Metaphor 6 Metaphor and Rhyme: A Reading of Paradiso 7 Dante’s Metaphors and the Model Reader 8 An Exegetical Response: T he Trecento Commentators 9 A Poetic Response: Petrarch’s Rerum vulgarium fragmenta; Bibliography; Index of Names; Index of Longer Quotations from ‘Paradiso’

Über Autor(innen)

David Gibbons