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In the Footsteps of Dante : Crossroads of European Humanism / ed. by Joao R. Figueiredo, Teresa Bartolomei.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Mimesis : Romanische Literaturen der Welt ; 99Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 297 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110795943
  • 9783110796094
  • 9783110796049
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 851.1 23/eng/20230315
LOC classification:
  • PQ4363 .I58 2023
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Foreword -- Prologue -- We Are All Called upon to Build Visions -- Section I: Dante. A Poet of Our Time -- “Supra te et non subter”: The Biblical Humanism of the Comedy -- Biblical Signa and Dante’s Words: For a Taxonomy of Biblical Intertextuality in the Comedy -- Dante and the Faith of the Reader -- Dante: Talking to the Dead – Giving a Voice to Silence -- Dante: Memory Matters in the Comedy -- Dante, Poet of a Europe to Come -- Section II: Dante in Portugal -- Dante in the Century of Camões -- Dante and Camões: Epic and the Portrayal of Humanity -- Dante and the Fifth Empire -- Dante in Portugal: An Ethereal Gaze -- Dante: Poetry and Translation -- Epilogue -- Dante the Geographer -- Editions and Translations -- Notes on Contributors -- General Index
Summary: Dante, the pilgrim, is the image of an author who stubbornly looks ahead, seeking and building the "Great Beyond" (Manguel). Following in his footsteps is therefore not a return to the past, going à rebours, but a commitment to the future, to exploring the potential of humanity to "transhumanise". This dynamic of self-transcendence in Dante’s humanism (Ossola), which claims for European civilisation a vocation for universalism (Ferroni), is analysed in the volume at three crucial moments: Firstly, the establishment of an emancipatory relationship between author and reader (Ascoli), in which authorship is authority and not power; secondly, the conception of vision as a learning process and horizon of eschatological overcoming (Mendonça); finally, the relationship with the past, which is never purely monumental, but ethically and intertextually dynamic, in an original rewriting of the original scriptural, medieval, and classical culture (Nasti, Bolzoni, Bartolomei). A second group of contributions is dedicated to the reconstruction of Dante’s presence in Portuguese literature (Almeida, Espírito Santo, Figueiredo, Marnoto, Vaz de Carvalho): they attest to the innovative impact of Dante’s work even in literary traditions more distant from it.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Foreword -- Prologue -- We Are All Called upon to Build Visions -- Section I: Dante. A Poet of Our Time -- “Supra te et non subter”: The Biblical Humanism of the Comedy -- Biblical Signa and Dante’s Words: For a Taxonomy of Biblical Intertextuality in the Comedy -- Dante and the Faith of the Reader -- Dante: Talking to the Dead – Giving a Voice to Silence -- Dante: Memory Matters in the Comedy -- Dante, Poet of a Europe to Come -- Section II: Dante in Portugal -- Dante in the Century of Camões -- Dante and Camões: Epic and the Portrayal of Humanity -- Dante and the Fifth Empire -- Dante in Portugal: An Ethereal Gaze -- Dante: Poetry and Translation -- Epilogue -- Dante the Geographer -- Editions and Translations -- Notes on Contributors -- General Index

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Dante, the pilgrim, is the image of an author who stubbornly looks ahead, seeking and building the "Great Beyond" (Manguel). Following in his footsteps is therefore not a return to the past, going à rebours, but a commitment to the future, to exploring the potential of humanity to "transhumanise". This dynamic of self-transcendence in Dante’s humanism (Ossola), which claims for European civilisation a vocation for universalism (Ferroni), is analysed in the volume at three crucial moments: Firstly, the establishment of an emancipatory relationship between author and reader (Ascoli), in which authorship is authority and not power; secondly, the conception of vision as a learning process and horizon of eschatological overcoming (Mendonça); finally, the relationship with the past, which is never purely monumental, but ethically and intertextually dynamic, in an original rewriting of the original scriptural, medieval, and classical culture (Nasti, Bolzoni, Bartolomei). A second group of contributions is dedicated to the reconstruction of Dante’s presence in Portuguese literature (Almeida, Espírito Santo, Figueiredo, Marnoto, Vaz de Carvalho): they attest to the innovative impact of Dante’s work even in literary traditions more distant from it.

Issued also in print.

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In English.

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