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Poetics of Redemption : Dante’s Divine Comedy / Andreas Kablitz.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (IX, 243 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110634099
  • 9783110634181
  • 9783110637106
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 851.1 23
LOC classification:
  • PQ4390 .K23 2021
  • PQ4335 .K335 2022
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Lecturae Dantis -- Art in the Afterlife or God as Scupltor -- Videre – Invidere -- Temporality and Eternity in Dante’s Purgatorio -- The End of the Sacrum Imperium -- Poetics of Knowledge in the Paradiso -- List of Original Publications -- Bibliography
Summary: The essays on Dante collected in this volume interpret his Commedia as the attempt of a renewal of the Christian work of salvation by means of literature. In the view of his author, the sacro poema responds to a historical moment of extreme danger, in which nothing less than the redemption of mankind is at stake. The degradation of the medieval Roman Empire and the rise of an early capitalism in his birth town Florence, entailing a pernicious moral depravation for Dante, are to him nothing else but a variety of symptoms of the backfall of the world into its state prior to its salvation by the incarnation of Christ. Dante presents his journey into the other world as an endeavor to escape these risks. Mobilizing the traditional procedures of literary discourse for this purpose, he aims at writing a text that overcomes the deficiencies of the traditional Book of Revelation that, on its own terms, no longer seems capable of fulfilling his traditional tasks. The immense revaluation of poetry implied in Dante’s Commedia, thus, contemporarily involves the claim of a substantial weakness of the institutional religious discourse.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Lecturae Dantis -- Art in the Afterlife or God as Scupltor -- Videre – Invidere -- Temporality and Eternity in Dante’s Purgatorio -- The End of the Sacrum Imperium -- Poetics of Knowledge in the Paradiso -- List of Original Publications -- Bibliography

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The essays on Dante collected in this volume interpret his Commedia as the attempt of a renewal of the Christian work of salvation by means of literature. In the view of his author, the sacro poema responds to a historical moment of extreme danger, in which nothing less than the redemption of mankind is at stake. The degradation of the medieval Roman Empire and the rise of an early capitalism in his birth town Florence, entailing a pernicious moral depravation for Dante, are to him nothing else but a variety of symptoms of the backfall of the world into its state prior to its salvation by the incarnation of Christ. Dante presents his journey into the other world as an endeavor to escape these risks. Mobilizing the traditional procedures of literary discourse for this purpose, he aims at writing a text that overcomes the deficiencies of the traditional Book of Revelation that, on its own terms, no longer seems capable of fulfilling his traditional tasks. The immense revaluation of poetry implied in Dante’s Commedia, thus, contemporarily involves the claim of a substantial weakness of the institutional religious discourse.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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