Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy: Volume 3

doi:10.11647/obp.0119

Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy: Volume 3 - cover image

DOI

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0119

License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Copyright

George Corbett; Heather Webb; Copyright of each chapter is maintained by the author.

Published On

2017-12-04

ISBN

Paperback978-1-78374-358-2

Hardback978-1-78374-359-9

PDF978-1-78374-360-5

HTML978-1-80064-538-7

XML978-1-78374-453-4

EPUB978-1-78374-361-2

MOBI978-1-78374-362-9

Language

English

Print Length

264 pages (xiv + 250)

Dimensions

Paperback156 x 14 x 234 mm(6.14" x 0.56" x 9.21")

Hardback156 x 16 x 234 mm(6.14" x 0.63" x 9.21")

Weight

Paperback834g (29.42oz)

Hardback1215g (42.86oz)

Media

Illustrations10

Funding

Trinity College, Cambridge

Selwyn College, Cambridge

Cambridge Italian Research Network (CIRN)

Italian Department, University of Cambridge

Keith Sykes

OCLC Number

1066663626

LCCN

2019452614

BIC

BISAC

LIT004200
POE019000
LIT011000

LCC

PQ4302

Keywords

Dante Alighieri
Commedia
Inferno
Purgatorio
Paradiso
Italian poetry
Italian literature
vertical readings
comparative

Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy

Volume 3

George Corbett (editor)
Heather Webb (editor)

This book is part of a 3-volume set. Other volumes in the set are:

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 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.

The volume has its origin in a series of thirty-three public lectures held in Trinity College, the University of Cambridge (2012-2016) which can be accessed at the Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy website.

Reviews

L’inchiesta miscellanea (frutto finale delle trentatré "public lectures” tenutesi tra il 2012 ed il 2016 all’università di Cambridge nel Regno Unito) chiude il cerchio iniziato con la pubblicazione dei precedenti due tomi, apparsi rispettivamente nel 2015 e nel 2016, e incentrati sulla lettura "verticale” della Commedia. […] Strumento imprescindibile e prezioso, Vertical Readings 3, assieme agli altri due volumi, si pone […] come tappa obbligata, proficua e stimolante per chi voglia addentrarsi, con efficaci supporti epistemologici, nel complesso e multiforme universo della poesia escatologica dantesca.

Olimpia Pelosi

"George Corbett and Heather Webb, eds. Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy. Volume 3". Annali d’Italianistica (0741-7527), vol. 38, 2020.

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