Journey to Beatrice

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4214-3264-9
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 496 g

Originally published in 1977. This volume recovers the allegory in Dante's Divine Comedy and presumes that readers' deficient knowledge of or interest in allegory have led to misinterpretations of Dante's poem. None of the dozens of commentaries on the Comedy published in the first half of the twentieth century was concerned with allegory more than sporadically, says Singleton, and so these treatments directed readers' attention to the merest disjecta membra of that continuous dimension of the poem. From Singleton's perspective, the allegory of the Comedy is an imitation of Biblical allegory, which was acknowledged by thinkers in the Middle Ages but not by intellectuals during and following the Renaissance. Singleton attempts to restore the allegorical elements to the foreground of interpreting the Comedy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Singleton, Charles S

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Journey To Beatrice
Chapter 1. The Allegorical Journey
Chapter 2. The Three Lights
Chapter 3. The Three Conversions
Chapter 4. Justification
Chapter 5. Advent of Beatrice
Chapter 6. Justification in History
Chapter 7. The Goal at the Summit
Chapter 8. Lady Philosophy or Wisdom
Part II: Return to Eden
Chapter 9. A Lament for Eden

Chapter 10. Rivers, Nymphs, and Stars
Chapter 11. Virgo or Justice
Chapter 12. Matelda
Chapter 13. Natural Justice
Chapter 14. Crossing Over into Eden
Reference List

Über Autor(innen)

Singleton, Charles S
Charles S. Singleton taught Italian studies at Johns Hopkins University and Harvard University.