Textual History And The "Divine Comedy"

Textual History And The "Divine Comedy"

This book examines the Commedia as a text, set in a discursive space, which can only be interpreted in terms of the other texts that it absorbs and transforms. It is only in the simultaneous reading of these voices that the voice of the Commedia exists. Texts such as the Bible, the Aeneid, the Metamorphoses, the Thebaid and the Commedia itself, coalesce into a textual "history" which must be examined in retrospect in order to interpret the "events" of the poet's text. Cantos studied include: Inferno XX, Purgatorio XXI, and Inferno XIII, V, and XXVI.

  • Cover
  • Table of Contents
  • Chapter I: Introduction
  • Chapter II: Misreadings in Inferno XX and Purgatorio XXI
  • Chapter III: The Language of Pier della Vigna: History to Narrative
  • Chapter IV: Inferno V: Literary History and Historical Literature
  • Chapter V: Ulysses: Antitypology and Empty History
  • Chapter VI: Conclusion
  • Bibliography of Works Cited and Consulted
  • Index
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