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Book SynopsisThe Oxford Handbook of Dante contains forty-four specially written chapters that provide a thorough and creative reading of Dante's oeuvre. It encompasses diverse approaches and spans several disciplines: philology, material culture, history, religion, art history, visual studies, literary theory, queer, post- and de-colonial, and feminist studies.
Trade ReviewThe Handbook lives up to the most stringent expectations. * F. Regina Psaki, Modern Language Review *
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 *
I heartily recommend this volume as a true feast for the mind. * Christopher Kleinhenz, Speculum 99/1 *
Table of ContentsManuele 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
