Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity - Couverture rigide

Shaw, Prue

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0871407426 ISBN 13 : 9780871407429

Editeur : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2028

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Keenly aware that thousands of books have been written about The Divine Comedy, Prue Shaw - one of the world's foremost Dante authorities - is convinced that an accessible, non-scholarly work that explicated Dante is needed. Just as Dante becomes a poet with a prophetic mission, Reading Dante becomes far more than an exegesis of Dante's three-part Commedia. It offers a literary experience that lifts the reader into the universal realms of poetry and mythology, revealing how one can recover time-past through memory and language. Whether challenging the notion that Dante was vindictive, decoding the numerology that can confound readers or positioning Dante's tortured life within the framework of fourteenth-century Florence, Shaw creates an astonishingly lyrical work that will appeal to both those who've never read the Commedia and those who have. Reading Dante underscores Dante's belief that poetry can change human lives.

Revue de presse :

For all of us who have put off a trip into Dante s great poem for fear of getting lost there for good, Prue Shaw's intricate, humane, lucid and precise guide into Dante's world and time at last provides the longed-for map. One might even say thatDante's readers now have a Virgil of their own. ----Adam Gopnik Prue Shaw s Reading Dante is a joy. It will remain on our shelves beside the works of those Dante scholars, such as Kenelm Foster, Etienne Gilson, Giovanni Papini and Bruno Nardi, who make you see the world, as well as seeing Dante, anew. --The Spectator

...[an] elegant and insightful guide...irresistible. --Sunday Herald

Altogether this is as interesting an introduction to Dante as one could hope to find in any language, and a clever and distinctive model for introductions to other authors as well. --Times Literary Supplement

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2028
• ISBN 10: 0871407426
• ISBN 13: 9780871407429
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352