Dante and Violence

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Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268200661
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (682 download)

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Book Synopsis Dante and Violence by : Brenda Deen Schildgen

Download or read book Dante and Violence written by Brenda Deen Schildgen and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores how Dante represents violence in the Comedy and reveals the connection between contemporary private and public violence and civic and canon law violations. Although a number of articles have addressed particular aspects of violence in discrete parts of Dante’s oeuvre, a systematic treatment of violence in the Commedia is lacking. This ambitious overview of violence in Dante’s literary works and his world examines cases of violence in the domestic, communal, and cosmic spheres while taking into account medieval legal approaches to rights and human freedom that resonate with the economy of justice developed in the Commedia. Exploring medieval concerns with violence both in the home and in just war theory, as well as the Christian theology of the Incarnation and Redemption, Brenda Deen Schildgen examines violence in connection to the natural rights theory expounded by canon lawyers beginning in the twelfth century. Partially due to the increased attention to its Greco-Roman cultural legacy, the twelfth-century Renaissance produced a number of startling intellectual developments, including the emergence of codified canon law and a renewed interest in civil law based on Justinian’s sixth-century Corpus juris civilis. Schildgen argues that, in addition to “divine justice,” Dante explores how the human system of justice, as exemplified in both canon and civil law and based on natural law and legal concepts of human freedom, was consistently violated in the society of his era. At the same time, the redemptive violence of the Crucifixion, understood by Dante as the free act of God in choosing the Incarnation and death on the cross, provides the model for self-sacrifice for the communal good. This study, primarily focused on Dante’s representation of his contemporary reality, demonstrates that the punishments and rewards in Dante’s heaven and hell, while ostensibly a staging of his vision of eternal justice, may in fact be a direct appeal to his readers to recognize the crimes that pervade their own world. Dante and Violence will have a wide readership, including students and scholars of Dante, medieval culture, violence, and peace studies.

Allegory and Violence

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Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801429958
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Book Synopsis Allegory and Violence by : Gordon Teskey

Download or read book Allegory and Violence written by Gordon Teskey and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only form of monumental artistic expression practiced from antiquity to the Enlightenment, allegory evolved to its fullest complexity in Dante's Commedia and Spenser's Faerie Queene. Drawing on a wide range of literary, visual, and critical works in the European tradition, Gordon Teskey provides both a literary history of allegory and a theoretical account of the genre which confronts fundamental questions about the violence inherent in cultural forms. Approaching allegory as the site of intense ideological struggle, Teskey argues that the desire to raise temporal experience to ever higher levels of abstraction cannot be realized fully but rather creates a "rift" that allegory attempts to conceal. After examining the emergence of allegorical violence from the gendered metaphors of classical idealism, Teskey describes its amplification when an essentially theological form of expression was politicized in the Renaissance by the introduction of the classical gods, a process leading to the replacement of allegory by political satire and cartoons. He explores the relationship between rhetorical voice and forms of indirect speech (such as irony) and investigates the corporeal emblematics of violence in authors as different as Machiavelli and Yeats. He considers the large organizing theories of culture, particularly those of Eliot and Frye, which take the place in the modern world of earlier allegorical visions. Concluding with a discussion of the Mutabilitie Cantos, Teskey describes Spenser's metaphysical allegory, which is deconstructed by its own invocation of genealogical struggle, as a prophetic vision and a form of warning.

Dante and Violence

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ISBN 13 : 9780268200640
Total Pages : 340 pages
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Book Synopsis Dante and Violence by : Brenda Deen Schildgen

Download or read book Dante and Violence written by Brenda Deen Schildgen and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores how Dante represents violence in the Comedy and reveals the connection between contemporary private and public violence and civic and canon law violations. Although a number of articles have addressed particular aspects of violence in discreet parts of Dante's oeuvre, a systematic treatment of violence in the Commedia is lacking. This ambitious overview of violence in Dante's literary works and his world examines cases of violence in the domestic, communal, and cosmic spheres while taking into account medieval legal approaches to rights and human freedom that resonate with the economy of justice developed in the Commedia. Exploring medieval concerns with violence both in the home and in just war theory, as well as the Christian theology of the Incarnation and Redemption, Brenda Deen Schildgen examines violence in connection to the natural rights theory expounded by canon lawyers beginning in the twelfth century. Partially due to the increased attention to its Greco-Roman cultural legacy, the twelfth-century Renaissance produced a number of startling intellectual developments, including the emergence of codified canon law and a renewed interest in civil law based on Justinian's sixth-century Corpus juris civilis. Schildgen argues that, in addition to his "divine justice," Dante explores how the human system of justice, as exemplified in both canon and civil law and based on natural law and legal concepts of human freedom, was consistently violated in the society of his era. At the same time, the redemptive violence of the Crucifixion, understood by Dante as the free act of God in choosing the Incarnation and death on the cross, provides the model for self-sacrifice for the communal good. This study, primarily focused on Dante's representation of his contemporary reality, demonstrates that the punishments and rewards in Dante's heaven and hell, while ostensibly a staging of his vision of eternal justice, may in fact be a direct appeal to his readers to recognize the crimes that pervade their world. Dante and Violence will have a wide readership, including students and scholars of Dante, medieval culture, violence, and peace studies.

Understanding Dante

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Total Pages : 512 pages
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Book Synopsis Understanding Dante by : John Alfred Scott

Download or read book Understanding Dante written by John Alfred Scott and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Understanding Dante, Scott goes beyond simply explaining Dante's works and provides a detailed discussion of the medieval poet's writings. John A. Scott has given readers a comprehensive account of Dante's work that will be useful to new readers and Dante scholars alike. It contains a helpful chronology of the events in the poet's life and a short glossary of poetic forms." --Magill Book Reviews

Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy

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Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783741724
Total Pages : 290 pages
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Book Synopsis Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy by : George Corbett

Download or read book Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy written by George Corbett and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from the three canticles: Inferno i, Purgatorio i and Paradiso i; Inferno ii, Purgatorio ii and Paradiso ii; etc. Although scholars have suggested before that there are correspondences between same-numbered cantos that beg to be explored, this is the first time that the approach has been pursued in a systematic fashion across the poem. This collection – to be issued in three volumes – offers an unprecedented repertoire of vertical readings for the whole poem. As the first volume exemplifies, vertical reading not only articulates unexamined connections between the three canticles but also unlocks engaging new ways to enter into core concerns of the poem. The three volumes thereby provide an indispensable resource for scholars, students and enthusiasts of Dante. The volume has its origin in a series of thirty-three public lectures held in Trinity College, the University of Cambridge (2012-2016) which can be accessed at the ‘Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy’ website.

Dante

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069120893X
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Book Synopsis Dante by : John Took

Download or read book Dante written by John Took and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For all that has been written about the author of the Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) remains the best guide to his own life and work. Dante's writings are therefore never far away in this authoritative and comprehensive intellectual biography, which offers a fresh account of the medieval Florentine poet's life and thought before and after his exile in 1302. Beginning with the often violent circumstances of Dante's life, the book examines his successive works as testimony to the course of his passionate humanity: his lyric poetry through to the Vita nova as the great work of his first period; the Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia and the poems of his early years in exile; and the Monarchia and the Commedia as the product of his maturity. Describing as it does a journey of the mind, the book confirms the nature of Dante's undertaking as an exploration of what he himself speaks of as "maturity in the flame of love." The result is an original synthesis of Dante's life and work." --Amazon.com.

Dante's Paradiso and the Limitations of Modern Criticism

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521217857
Total Pages : 242 pages
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Book Synopsis Dante's Paradiso and the Limitations of Modern Criticism by : Robin Kirkpatrick

Download or read book Dante's Paradiso and the Limitations of Modern Criticism written by Robin Kirkpatrick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1978-09-07 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Kirkpatrick analyses Dante's Paradiso through the language, organisation of the poem, and religious and philosophical belief.

Dante's Inferno: The Divine Comedy, Book One

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Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1434446263
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (344 download)

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Book Synopsis Dante's Inferno: The Divine Comedy, Book One by : Dante Alighieri

Download or read book Dante's Inferno: The Divine Comedy, Book One written by Dante Alighieri and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his introduction, the translator says: "I suppose that a very great majority of English-speaking people, if they were asked to name the greatest epic poet of the Christian era in Western Europe, would answer Dante." THE DIVINE COMEDY continues to be widely read today, whether for its religious inspiration or for the sheer power of its verse. The first part of the epic, THE INFERNO, tells how the narrator "loses his way," and finds himself in a strange landscape he's never seen before. There he encounters the shade of the ancient Roman poet, Virgil, who offers to lead him through the nine circles of Hell. The damned of Dante's imagination, it's quite clear, have condemned themselves through their actions or inactions to become permanent prisoners of the nether regions. Down, down, down, go Dante and his guide, meeting friend and foe alike, with horror piled upon horror. Finally, they must climb Satan's body to find the only possible exit from this terrible place--where once more the poet will "see again the stars." A first-rate modern rendering of a literary classic!

Dante's Dilemma

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1633880435
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)

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Book Synopsis Dante's Dilemma by : Lynne Raimondo

Download or read book Dante's Dilemma written by Lynne Raimondo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blind psychiatrist Mark Angelotti is faced with his most troubling case yet when he is asked to evaluate Rachel Lazarus, the estranged wife of a slain University of Chicago professor. Months earlier, the professor’s body was found stuffed into one of the exhibits at “Scav,” the school’s world-famous annual scavenger hunt, and – in a feast for the press – missing a vital piece of its anatomy. Though she’s confessed to her husband’s murder, Rachel is mounting a battered woman’s defense. Forced into helping the prosecution, Mark becomes unsure of his objectivity when his investigation uncovers uncomfortable parallels between Rachel’s history and his own. That concern proves well-founded when his damaging admission at trial all but convicts Rachel. Then a tip connects the case to another suspected murder and evidence that Rachel may not be guilty after all. As he plows ahead during a brutal Chicago winter, Mark soon learns he has far more to worry about than treacherous snow and ice: someone will do anything to guarantee that Rachel takes the fall. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Sanctified Violence

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Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 162466962X
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (246 download)

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Book Synopsis Sanctified Violence by : Alfred J. Andrea

Download or read book Sanctified Violence written by Alfred J. Andrea and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-24 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This rich and engaging book looks at instances of sanctified violence, the holy wars related to religion. It covers it all, from ancient to present day, including examples of warfare among Sikhs, Hindus and Buddhists, as well as Christians, Jews and Muslims. It is a comprehensive and readable overview that provides a lively introduction to the subject of holy war in its broadest sense—as ‘sanctified violence’ in the service of a god or ideology. It is certain to be a useful companion in the classroom, and a boon to anyone fascinated by the dark attraction of religion and violence." —Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara Contents: Introduction: What Is Holy War? Chapter 1: Holy Wars in Mythic Time, Holy Wars as Metaphor, Holy Wars as RitualChapter 2: Holy Wars of Conquest in the Name of a DeityChapter 3: Holy Wars in Defense of the SacredChapter 4: Holy Wars in Anticipation of the Millennium Epilogue: Holy Wars Today and Tomorrow Also included are a description of the Critical Themes in World History series, Preface, index, and suggestions for further reading.

Danteworlds

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226702782
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Book Synopsis Danteworlds by : Guy P. Raffa

Download or read book Danteworlds written by Guy P. Raffa and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the greatest works of world literature, Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy has, despite its enormous popularity and importance, often stymied readers with its multitudinous characters, references, and themes. But until now, students of the Inferno have lacked a suitable resource to guide their reading. Welcome to Danteworlds, the first substantial guide to the Inferno in English. Guy P. Raffa takes readers on a geographic journey through Dante’s underworld circle by circle—from the Dark Wood down to the ninth circle of Hell—in much the same way Dante and Virgil proceed in their infernal descent. Each chapter—or “region”—of the book begins with a summary of the action, followed by detailed entries, significant verses, and useful study questions. The entries, based on a close examination of the poet’s biblical, classical, and medieval sources, help locate the characters and creatures Dante encounters and assist in decoding the poem’s vast array of references to religion, philosophy, history, politics, and other works of literature. Written by an established Dante scholar and tested in the fire of extensive classroom experience, Danteworlds will be heralded by readers at all levels of expertise, from students and general readers to teachers and scholars.

World Literature (Teacher Guide)

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Publisher : New Leaf Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 0890516766
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (95 download)

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Book Synopsis World Literature (Teacher Guide) by : James Stobaugh

Download or read book World Literature (Teacher Guide) written by James Stobaugh and published by New Leaf Publishing Group. This book was released on 2012-12-13 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vital resource for grading all assignments from the World Literature course, including options to help personalize the coursework for the individual student to develop: Essay writing skills Solid worldviews Higher ACT/SAT scores Strong vocabulary Overview: Students are immersed into some of the greatest world literature ever written in this well-crafted presentation of whole-book or whole-work selections from classic prose, poetry, and drama. Literary content and writers covered in this volume include: the Gilgamesh Epic, Homer, Plato, "The Sermon on the Mount" by Matthew, Augustine of Hippo, Henrik Ibsen, Albert Camus, as well as readings from Japan, India, China, Russia, Spain, and many more selections of the finest in world literature. Additional readings not included within this text can be found at local libraries or widely available as free online downloads.

Dante's Deadly Sins

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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118112415
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book Dante's Deadly Sins written by and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-02 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dante’s Deadly Sins is a unique study of the moral philosophy behind Dante’s master work that considers the Commedia as he intended, namely, as a practical guide to moral betterment. Focusing on Inferno and Purgatorio, Belliotti examines the puzzles and paradoxes of Dante’s moral assumptions, his treatment of the 7 deadly sins, and how 10 of his most powerful moral lessons anticipate modern existentialism. Analyzes the moral philosophy underpinning one of the greatest works of world culture Summarizes the Inferno and Purgatorio, while underscoring their moral implications Explains and evaluates Dante’s understanding of the ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ and the ultimate role they play as the basis of human transgression. Provides a detailed discussion of the philosophical concepts of moral desert and the law of contrapasso, using character case studies within Dante’s work Connects the poem’s moral themes to our own contemporary condition

Dante

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857722034
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Book Synopsis Dante by : Barbara Reynolds

Download or read book Dante written by Barbara Reynolds and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dante is one of the towering figures of medieval European literature. Yet many riddles and questions about him persist. By re-reading Dante with an open mind, Barbara Reynolds made remarkable discoveries and unlocked previously hidden secrets about this greatest of Florentine poets. A fundamental enigma has tantalised readers of the 'Commedia' for seven centuries. Who was the leader prophesied by Virgil and Beatrice to bring peace to the world? Many attempts have been made to identify him, but none has seemed conclusive - until now. As well as proposing a solution to the famous prophecies, this lively, engaging and elegantly-written biography contains a provocative new idea in virtually every chapter. Dr Reynolds' research indicates that Dante smoked cannabis to reach new heights of creativity. That Beatrice, Dante's great love, was not who most scholars think she was. That Dante was a talented public speaker, who created a quite new form of poetic art, holding audiences spellbound. Above all, Reynolds views Dante as one of the greatest spin-doctors of Western civilization. His aim was not to preach an interesting parable about punishments for sin and rewards for virtue. It was to use poetry to change the politics of the age, and unite Europe around the secular authority of an Emperor. To promote this idea, which dominated his writings from his exile onwards, Dante combined it with a dramatic presentation of the Christian belief in Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. Vividly told in the first person, with a colour and immediacy derived from the pop art of street narrators - now made to seem respectable by its use of classical predecessors like Virgil - this extraordinary journey through the three realms was always profoundly political in intent. Dante here comes alive as never before: irate, opinionated, settling scores - a man of multifaceted gifts and extraordinary genius, whose role as an interpreter of world history makes him more than ever relevant to the new millennium.

Dante Alighieri

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Publisher : PediaPress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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The Spiritual Sense of Dante's "Divina Commedia"

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Total Pages : 234 pages
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Book Synopsis The Spiritual Sense of Dante's "Divina Commedia" by : William Torrey Harris

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Dante's Inferno, The Indiana Critical Edition

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253209306
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis Dante's Inferno, The Indiana Critical Edition by : Dante Alighieri

Download or read book Dante's Inferno, The Indiana Critical Edition written by Dante Alighieri and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1995-06-22 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a verse translation of Dante's "Inferno" along with ten essays that analyze the different interpretations of the first canticle of the "Divine Comedy."