Marchesi Dante and Augustine

Linguistics, Poetics, Hermeneutics
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4426-9029-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

Examining Dante's life-long dialogue with Augustine from a new point of view, Marchesi goes beyond traditional inquiries to engage more technical questions relating to Dante's evolving ideas on how language, poetry, and interpretation should work.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marchesi, Simone

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Preface Introduction - Linguistics
a. The nature of language and the common project of Convivio and De vulgari eloquentia: enucleare aliis conceptum

b. The quest for a perfect language: Latin as grammar

c. An alternative model: Augustine again

d. Concetto: the redefinition of conceptual speech in the Commedia

e. Concetto again: Dante's incarnational poetics in Paradiso - Poetics
a. The making of poetry: verba and sentential as discretive mixta

b. Meaning in poetry: the task of prose

c. Convenientia across secular and biblical writings

d. On translating meaning: biblical poetry and the sweetness of the Psalms
- Hermeneutics
a. The burden of interpretation: authorial intention in Dante's "minor" works

b. Per te poeta fui, per te cristiano: texts and authors framing Statius' Christianity

c. Reading beyond the author: two stumbling blocks in Purgatorio XXII

d. Augustine's regula caritatis and the interpretation of the Commedia

e. Augustine's hermeneutics and the poetics of the Spirit
Conclusion Works Cited

Über Autor(innen)

MarchesiSimone:
Simone Marchesi is an associate professor in the Department of French and Italian at Princeton University.