Dante S Reforming Mission And Women In The Comedy
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Dante S Reforming Mission And Women In The Comedy
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Author : Diana Glenn
language : en
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2008
Dante S Reforming Mission And Women In The Comedy written by Diana Glenn and has been published by Troubador Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Literary Criticism categories.
Offers an analysis of the presence and significance of female characters in Dante's 'Comedy'. Commencing with the tabulations of women listed in "Inferno IV" and "Purgatorio XXII", to which may be added the grouping in "Paradiso XXXII", this work traces the symmetry and symbolic import of these clusters.
Dante Columbus And The Prophetic Tradition
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Author : Mary Alexandra Watt
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-03-27
Dante Columbus And The Prophetic Tradition written by Mary Alexandra Watt and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-27 with LITERARY CRITICISM categories.
Exploring the diverse factors that persuaded Christopher Columbus that he could reach the fabled "East" by sailing west, Dante, Columbus and the Prophetic Tradition considers, first, the impact of Dante’s Divine Comedy and the apocalyptic prophetic tradition that it reflects, on Columbus’s perception both of the cosmos and the eschatological meaning of his journey to what he called an ‘other world.’ In so doing, the book considers how affinities between himself and the exiled poet might have led Columbus to see himself as a divinely appointed agent of the apocalypse and his enterprise as the realization of the spiritual journey chronicled in the Comedy. As part of this study, the book necessarily examines the cultural space that Dante’s poem, its geography, cosmography and eschatology, enjoyed in late fifteenth century Spain as well as Columbus’s own exposure to it. As it considers how Italian writers and artists of the late Renaissance and Counter Reformation received the news of Columbus’ ‘discovery’ and appropriated the figure of Dante and the pseudo-prophecy of the Comedy to interpret its significance, the book examines how Tasso, Ariosto, Stradano and Stigliani, in particular, forge a link between Dante and Columbus to present the latter as an inheritor of an apostolic tradition that traces back to the Aeneid. It further highlights the extent to which Italian writers working in the context of the Counter Reformation, use a Dantean filter to propagate the notion of Columbus as a new Paul, that is, a divinely appointed apostle to the New World, and the Roman Church as the rightful emperor of the souls encountered there.
Reflecting The Eternal
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Author : Marsha Daigle-Williamson
language : en
Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers
Release Date : 2015-11-19
Reflecting The Eternal written by Marsha Daigle-Williamson and has been published by Hendrickson Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
The characters, plots, and potent language of C. S. Lewis's novels reveal everywhere the modern writer' admiration for Dante's Divine Comedy. Throughout his career Lewis drew on the structure, themes, and narrative details of Dante's medieval epic to present his characters as spiritual pilgrims growing toward God. Dante's portrayal of sin and sanctification, of human frailty and divine revelation, are evident in all of Lewis's best work. Readers will see how a modern author can make astonishingly creative use of a predecessor's material - in this case, the way Lewis imitated and adapted medieval ideas about spiritual life for the benefit of his modern audience. Nine chapters cover all of Lewis's novels, from Pilgrim's Regress and his science-fiction to The Chronicles of Narnia and Till We Have Faces. Readers will gain new insight into the sources of Lewis's literary imagination that represented theological and spiritual principles in his clever, compelling, humorous, and thoroughly human stories.
The Shadow Of The Precursor
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Author : Nena Bierbaum
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2011-10-18
The Shadow Of The Precursor written by Nena Bierbaum and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
A shadow, in its most literal sense, is the projection of a silhouette against a surface and the obstruction of direct light from hitting that surface. For writers and artists, the shadows cast by their precursors can be either a welcome influence, one consciously evoked in textual production via homage or bricolage, or can manifest as an intrusive, haunting, prohibitive presence, one which threatens to engulf the successor. Many writers and artists are affected by an anxious and ambiguous relationship with their precursors, while others are energised by this relationship. The role that intertextuality plays in creative production invites interrogation, and this publication explores a range of conscious and unconscious influences informing relations between texts and contexts, between predecessors and successors. The chapters revolve around intertextual influence, ranging from conscious imitation and intentional allusion to Julia Kristeva’s idea of intertextuality. Do all texts contain references to and even quotations from other texts? Do such references help shape how we read? This multidisciplinary work includes chapters on the long shadows cast by Shakespeare, Dante, Scott, Virgil and Ovid, the shadows of colonial precursors on postcolonial successors, the shadows cast over Kipling and Murdoch, and chapters on other writers, dramatists and filmmakers and their relationships with precursor figures. With its focus on intertextual relationships, this book contributes to the thriving fields of adaptation studies and studies of intertextuality.
Ringleaders Of Redemption
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Author : Kathryn Dickason
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2021-01-15
Ringleaders Of Redemption written by Kathryn Dickason and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-15 with Performing Arts categories.
In popular thought, Christianity is often figured as being opposed to dance. Conventional scholarship traces this controversy back to the Middle Ages. Throughout the medieval era, the Latin Church denounced and prohibited dancing in religious and secular realms, often aligning it with demonic intervention, lust, pride, and sacrilege. Historical sources, however, suggest that medieval dance was a complex and ambivalent phenomenon. During the High and Late Middle Ages, Western theologians, liturgists, and mystics not only tolerated dance; they transformed it into a dynamic component of religious thought and practice. This book investigates how dance became a legitimate form of devotion in Christian culture. Sacred dance functioned to gloss scripture, frame spiritual experience, and imagine the afterlife. Invoking numerous manuscript and visual sources (biblical commentaries, sermons, saints' lives, ecclesiastical statutes, mystical treatises, vernacular literature, and iconography), this book highlights how medieval dance helped shape religious identity and social stratification. Moreover, this book shows the political dimension of dance, which worked in the service of Christendom, conversion, and social cohesion. In Ringleaders of Redemption, Kathryn Dickason reveals a long tradition of sacred dance in Christianity, one that the professionalization and secularization of Renaissance dance obscured, and one that the Reformation silenced and suppressed.
The Women In Dante S Divine Comedy
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Author : Nancy Ruggeri Colaiaco
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 1999-01-01
The Women In Dante S Divine Comedy written by Nancy Ruggeri Colaiaco and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-01 with categories.
Dante's Divine Comedy ranks among the greatest masterpieces of world literature. Reading the poem for gender reveals a subversive dimension that has not been sufficiently examined. Dante gives eight women prominence, transgressing gender roles and challenging medieval patriarchy. These women have structural, pedagogical and psychological significance in the Divine Comedy. At each stage of his journey from darkness to light, the pilgrim Dante encounters a woman who teaches and guides him to understand the difference between misdirected love and spiritual love. At the conclusion of the journey, the pilgrim's conception of the divine is transformed to incorporate feminine qualities, presenting God as Mother
Dante Alighieri
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Author : Suzana Yolanda Machado Cánovas
language : pt-BR
Publisher: Editora Kelps
Release Date : 2021-01-18
Dante Alighieri written by Suzana Yolanda Machado Cánovas and has been published by Editora Kelps this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-18 with Literary Collections categories.
Como um prisma, este livro sobre a obra de Dante Alighieri pode ser apreendido de diferentes perspectivas: é sobre literatura, sobre leitura e crítica, sobre paixão e generosidade, sobre resistência e força de um cânone e seu o potencial interpretativo. Há mais de 700 anos o poeta italiano Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), ao ser exilado de Florença atravessou o pequeno vilarejo de San Benedetto in Alpe, na Itália, onde se encontra a famosa cascata de Acquacheta, descrita na Divina Comédia, no Canto XVI (94-105) do Inferno. Há 100 anos, neste mesmo lugar, San Benedetto in Alpe, na única casa da Via Dante Alighieri, nascia Egidio Turchi. Ao unir tempos e lugares, cursos ministrados na Universidade Federal de Goiás por professores arrebatados pela obra de Dante, deram origem aos ensaios do livro que foi juntando companheiros de viagem, professores, críticos, parceiros dialéticos e outras vozes que se somaram, numa trama compartilhada e coletiva. Os organizadores, guiados pela Profa. Suzana Canovas, generosamente, o dedicam ao Prof. Egidio Turchi, para quem o poeta italiano é parte integrante de sua herança afetiva e cultural.Este livro – Dante Alighieri: o poeta, o místico e o enamorado – amplia e aprofunda o mapa da sensibilidade. Mostra que a Divina Comédia, ou mais precisamente a Comédia, e toda a obra de Dante podem ser iluminadas por novas interpretações numa multiplicidade de encontros linguísticos e transnacionais. Instiga os leitores a uma viagem pelo mundo de Dante, o que contribui para aprofundar as modulações da poeisis desse poeta genial que, no dizer do crítico George Steiner, é capaz de harmonizar o aspecto teológico, o filosófico e o poético da criação, por isso é nosso meridiano. Maria Zaira Turchi
The Women In Dante S Divine Comedy And Spenser S Faerie Queene
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Author : Anne Paolucci
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
The Women In Dante S Divine Comedy And Spenser S Faerie Queene written by Anne Paolucci and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Literary Criticism categories.
The first substantial study on the importance of the women in the two major epics of the Renaissance, this work presents a compelling argument for comparison of the two epics, based on internal correspondence and similarities. Spenser, the epic poet of Protestant England, recalls in his dedicatory letter to Sir Walter Raleigh other epic poets - Ariosto, Tasso, Homer, Virgil - but is eloquently silent about the great epic poet of Roman Catholicism. Still, the grand scope of The Faeirie Queene, the multi-faceted role of the women, their importance in the religious and political design outlined by the poet, invite comparison with Dante's Divine Comedy.
New Books On Women Gender And Feminism
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
New Books On Women Gender And Feminism written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Feminism categories.
Women Writers Of The Renaissance And Reformation
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Author : Katharina M. Wilson
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 1987
Women Writers Of The Renaissance And Reformation written by Katharina M. Wilson and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Literary Criticism categories.
The dawn of humanism in the Renaissance presented privileged women with great opportunities for personal and intellectual growth. Sexual and social roles still determined the extent to which a woman could pursue education and intellectual accomplishment, but it was possible through the composition of poetry or prose to temporarily offset hierarchies of gender, to become equal to men in the act of creation. Edited by Katharina M. Wilson, this anthology introduces the works of twenty-five women writers of the Renaissance and Reformation, among them Marie Dentière, a Swiss evangelical reformer whose writings were so successful they were banned during her lifetime; Gaspara Stampa, a cultivated courtesan of Venetian aristocratic circles who wrote lyric poetry that has earned her comparisons to Michelangelo and Tasso; Hélisenne de Crenne, a French aristocrat who embodied the true spirit of the Renaissance feminist, writing both as novelist and as champion of her sex; Helene Kottanner, Austrian chambermaid to Queen Elizabeth of Hungary whose memoirs recall her daring theft of the Holy Crown of Saint Stephen for her esteemed mistress; and Lady Mary Sidney Wroth, the first Englishwoman known to write a full-length work of fiction and compose a significant body of secular poetry. Offering a seldom seen counterpoint to literature written by men, Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation presents prose and poetry that have never before appeared in English, as well as writings that have rarely been available to the nonspecialist. The women whose writings are included here are united by a keen awareness of the social limitations placed upon their creative potential, of the strained relationship between their gender and their work. This concern invests their writings with a distinctive voice--one that carries the echoes of a male aesthetic while boldly declaring battle against it.