Dante and the Practice of Humility - Couverture souple

Teubner, Rachel K.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1009315374 ISBN 13 : 9781009315371

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2025

Synopsis

In this book, Rachel Teubner offers an exploration of humility in Dante's Divine Comedy, arguing that the poem is an ascetical exercise concerned with training its author gradually in the practice of humility, rather than being a reflection of authorial hubris. A contribution to recent scholarship that considers the poem to be a work of self-examination, her volume investigates its scriptural, literary, and liturgical sources, also offering fresh feminist perspectives on its theological challenges. Teubner demonstrates how the poetry of the Comedy is theologically significant, focusing especially on the poem's definition of humility as ethically and artistically meaningful. Interrogating the text canto by canto, she also reveals how contemporary tools of literary analysis can offer new insights into its meaning. Undergraduate and novice readers will benefit from this companion, just as theologians and scholars of medieval religion will be introduced to a growing body of scholarship exploring Dante's religious thought.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Rachel K. Teubner is a Research Fellow in Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Australian Catholic University's Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry. She has held fellowships at Harvard University, the University of Cambridge, and the Institute for Critical Inquiry in Berlin. Her current research explores genre, gender and theology in women's lyric writings during the long Reformation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009315374
• ISBN 13: 9781009315371
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italie