Copyright
George Corbett; Heather Webb; Copyright of individual chapters is maintained by the chapter’s author.Published On
2016-12-12ISBN
Language
- English
Print Length
304 pages (xiv + 290)Dimensions
Weight
Media
Funding
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- Selwyn College, Cambridge
- Keith Sykes
- Italian Department, University of Cambridge
- Cambridge Italian Research Network (CIRN)
OCLC Number
978440979LCCN
2019452609BIC
- DS
- DSC
BISAC
- LIT004200
- LIT011000
- POE019000
LCC
- PQ4302
Keywords
- Dante Alighieri
- Commedia
- Inferno
- Purgatorio
- Paradiso
- Italian poetry
- Italian literature
- vertical readings
- comparative
Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy
Volume 2
- George Corbett (editor)
- Heather Webb (editor)
Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from the three canticles: Inferno i, Purgatorio i and Paradiso i; Inferno ii, Purgatorio ii and Paradiso ii; etc. Although scholars have suggested before that there are correspondences between same-numbered cantos that beg to be explored, this is the first time that the approach has been pursued in a systematic fashion across the poem.
This collection – to be issued in three volumes – offers an unprecedented repertoire of vertical readings for the whole poem. As the first volume exemplifies, vertical reading not only articulates unexamined connections between the three canticles but also unlocks engaging new ways to enter into core concerns of the poem. The three volumes thereby provide an indispensable resource for scholars, students and enthusiasts of Dante.
Reviews
There are many fine monographs from 2016, but one work that stands out for its comprehensiveness and boldness is the second volume of "vertical readings” of Dante’s Comedy. […] Its innovative approach to understanding the whole of Dante’s Comedy encourages readers to take stock of the intentio operis and autoris, to begin to consider how, as the Letter to Cangrande has it, "the purpose of the whole and the part could be multiple that is both remote and proximate”
Anthony Nussmeier
"Due and Trecento I (Dante)". The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies (0084-4152), vol. 78, no. 1, 2018. doi:10.1163/22224297-07801019
Contents
Introduction
(pp. 1–12)- George Corbett
- Heather Webb
12. Centaurs, Spiders and Saints
(pp. 13–30)- Christian Moevs
13. ‘Would you Adam and Eve it?’
(pp. 31–54)- Robert Wilson
- Catherine M. Keen
15. Dante’s Fatherlands
(pp. 77–100)- Simone Marchesi
16. Politics of Desire
(pp. 101–126)- Manuele Gragnolati
17. Seductive Lies, Unpalatable Truths, Alter Egos
(pp. 127–150)- Tristan Kay
18. Women, War and Wisdom
(pp. 151–172)- Anne C. Leone
19. Inside Out
(pp. 173–192)- Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja
- Claudia Rossignoli
21. God’s Beloved: From Pitch, Through Script, to Writ
(pp. 217–236)- Corinna Salvadori Lonergan
22. Truth, Autobiography and the Poetry of Salvation
(pp. 237–258)- Giuseppe Ledda
Contributors
George Corbett
(editor)George Corbett is Lecturer in Theology, Imagination and the Arts in the School of Divinity, University of St Andrews. Prior to this, he was Junior Research Fellow of Trinity College and Affiliated Lecturer of the Department of Italian, University of Cambridge. He is the author of Dante and Epicurus: A Dualistic Vision of Secular and Spiritual Fulfilment (2013), and was the co-organiser, with Heather Webb, of the Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy lecture series (2012–16).
Heather Webb
(editor)Heather Webb is University Lecturer in Italian at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Selwyn College. She is the author of The Medieval Heart (2010), Dante's Persons: An Ethics of the Transhuman (2016) and articles on Dante, Catherine of Siena and others. She was co-organiser, with George Corbett, of the Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante's 'Comedy' lecture series (2012–16). She is co-editor, with Pierpaolo Antonello, of Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel: René Girard and Literary Criticism (2015).