Cambridge Readings in Dante's Comedy

by Kenelm Foster (Editor), Patrick Boyde (Editor)

Overview

Originally published in 1981, the ten essays in this collection were originally delivered as public Lecturae Dantis in the University of Cambridge. As far as possible the contributors have preserved the form of the original lectures, which combined elements of the running commentary and the critical essay. Each reading is devoted to a single canto of the Comedy, and the text of that canto has been broken down into manageable units. The authors provide information about background and context and elucidate obscurities or difficult allusions, but their primary concern has been to give a connected critical account of Dante's style, thought, narrative technique, imagery and symbolism in the given canto. The editors have aimed at producing a well-rounded volume that would illustrate as many facets as possible of Dante's complex art.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521155205
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	04/14/2011
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.51(d)

Table of Contents

Contributors; Preface; 1. Inferno XIII Patrick Boyde; 2. Inferno XXV Robin Kirkpatrick; 3. Inferno XXVII Judith Davies; 4. Inferno XXXIII Oiero Boitani; 5. Purgatorio III Philip McNair; 6. Purgatorio XXIX Peter Dronke; 7. Purgatorio XXXII Kenelm Foster; 8. Paradiso XVII Uberto Limentani; 9. Paradiso XXVI Joseph Cremona; 10. Paradiso XXX Prudence Shaw.