The Cambridge Companion to Dante's 'Commedia'

This newly commissioned volume presents a focused overview of Dante's masterpiece, the Commedia, offering readers of today wide-ranging insights into the poem and its core features. Leading scholars discuss matters of structure, narrative, language and style, characterization, doctrine, and politics, in chapters that make their own contributions to Dante criticism by raising problems and questions that call for renewed attention, while investigating contextual concerns as well as the current state of criticism about the poem. The Commedia is also placed in a variety of cultural and historical contexts through accounts of the poem's transmission and reception that explore both its contemporary influence and its continuing legacy today. With its accessible approach, its unstinting focus on the poem and its attention to matters that have not always received adequate critical assessment, this volume will be of value to all students and scholars of Dante's great poem.

Author: Zygmunt G. Barański
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 12/20/2018
Pages: 326
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.70h x 7.00w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781108421294
ISBN10: 1108421296
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | European | General
- Poetry | European | Italian