The essays that form this book were originally published between 1959 and 1984. They are arranged to follow the order of the "Comedy," and they form the perfect companion for a reader of the poem. With these essays assembled for the first time, we can now see Freccero's stature: he is the best contemporary critic of Dante. Freccero is that rare article, a critic of eclectic and not dogmatic persuasion. Throughout Freccero operates on the fundamental premise that there is al- ways an intricate and crucial dialectic at work between Dante the poet and Dante the pilgrim, and that it is this dialectic that makes the work so profoundly dramatic, one of the great novels of the self.
Thanks to Freccero we readers have the "Comedy" whole again. Freccero calls upon medieval philosophy, cosmology, science, theology, and poetics to enable us to traverse Dante's moral landscape without losing our way in the confusions of minute exegeses. In a secular age Freccero enables us to see this poem as what it is, something wholly other than what we might believe or write. In doing so he shows us the most that language can achieve in any age, secular or not.
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The essays that form this book were originally published between 1959 and 1984. They are arranged to follow the order of the "Comedy," and they form the perfect companion for a reader of the poem. With these essays assembled for the first time, we can now see Freccero's stature: he is the best contemporary critic of Dante. Freccero is that rare article, a critic of eclectic and not dogmatic persuasion. Throughout Freccero operates on the fundamental premise that there is al- ways an intricate and crucial dialectic at work between Dante the poet and Dante the pilgrim, and that it is this dialectic that makes the work so profoundly dramatic, one of the great novels of the self.
Thanks to Freccero we readers have the "Comedy" whole again. Freccero calls upon medieval philosophy, cosmology, science, theology, and poetics to enable us to traverse Dante's moral landscape without losing our way in the confusions of minute exegeses. In a secular age Freccero enables us to see this poem as what it is, something wholly other than what we might believe or write. In doing so he shows us the most that language can achieve in any age, secular or not.
Imprint | Harvard University Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | December 1986 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | March 1988 |
Authors | John Freccero |
Editors | Rachel Jacoff |
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback |
Pages | 344 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-674-19226-3 |
Barcode | 9780674192263 |
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LSN | 0-674-19226-5 |