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The essays in this volume address the interrelationship between Dante and the Franciscan intellectual tradition and demonstrate how all disciplines can come together to shed light on how the Franciscan intellectual component informs so much of Dante’s writing and how in turn Franciscan writing is informed by Dante's work.
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Essays on Italian novelists, poets and playwrights, new forms of expression through experimentation, as well as avant-guarde groups, including young and idealistic literati that called themselves Gruppo 63 and later Gruppo 93. Covers feminist writers, the inauguration of the postmodern narratives often called metafictions, and the "new novel."
Dante on View opens an important new dimension in Dante studies: for the first time a collection of essays analyses the presence of the Italian Medieval poet Dante Alighieri in the visual and performing arts from the Middle Ages to the present day. The essays in this volume explore the image of Dante emerging in medieval illuminated manuscripts and later ideological and nostalgic uses of the poet. The volume also demonstrates the rich diversity of projects inspired by the Commedia both as an overall polysemic structure and as a repository of scenes, which generate a repertoire for painters, actors and film-makers. In its original multimediality, Dante's Commedia stimulates the performance of readers and artists working in different media from manuscript to stage, from ballet to hyperinstruments, from film to television. Through such a variety of media, the reception of Dante in the visual and performing arts enriches our understanding of the poet and of the arts represented at key moments of formal and structural change in the European cultural world.
Covers comparative literature; English literature; Italian literature in the 18th and 19th centuries.
A comprehensive re-assessment of Raphael's artistic achievement and the ways in which it transformed the idea of what art is.