Dante's "Vita Nova": A Collaborative Reading

This volume presents a novel approach to reading Dantes Vita nova, focusing on its textual and historical context, polysemy, structural fluidity, social environment, relationships with other poets, and evolving vision of poetry's scope. It offers insights into Dantes social environment, relationships with other poets, and evolving vision of poetry's scope. Contributors include Zygmunt G. Barański, Heather Webb, Claire E. Honess, Brian F. Richardson, Ruth Chester, Federica Pich, Matthew Treherne, Catherine Keen, Jennifer Rushworth, Daragh OConnell, Sophie V. Fuller, Giulia Gaimari, Emily Kate Price, Manuele Gragnolati, Elena Lombardi, Francesca Southerden, Rebecca Bowen, Nicolò Crisafi, Lachlan Hughes, Franco Costantini, David Bowe, Tristan Kay, Filippo Gianferrari, Simon Gilson, Rebekah Locke, Luca Lombardo, Peter Dent, George Ferzoco, Paola Nasti, Marco Grimaldi, David G. Lummus, Helena Phillips-Robins, Aistė Kiltinavičiūtė, Alessia Carrai, Ryan Pepin, Valentina Mele, Katherine Powlesland, Federica Coluzzi, K. P. Clarke, Nicolò Maldina, Theodore J. Cachey Jr., Chiara Sbordoni, Lorenzo DellOso, and Anne C. Leone.

Format: Hardback
Length: 518 pages
Publication date: 15 December 2023
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press

This original volume presents a novel approach to reading Dantes Vita nova, exemplified by a wide range of scholarly perspectives on the text. The volume is the result of a two-year series of international seminars aimed at developing a fresh reading of the Vita nova. By analyzing each of its forty-two chapters individually, the focus is placed on the Vita nova in its textual and historical context, rather than on its relationship to the Divine Comedy. This decoupling has allowed the contributors to highlight various important literary features of the text, including its rich and complex polysemy, as well as its structural fluidity. The volume also provides insights into Dantes social environment, his relationships with other poets, and his evolving vision of the scope of his poetry. Using a variety of critical methodologies and hermeneutical approaches, this volume offers scholars an opportunity to reread the Vita nova in a renewed context and from a diversity of literary, cultural, and ideological perspectives. Contributors to this volume include Zygmunt G. Barański, Heather Webb, Claire E. Honess, Brian F. Richardson, Ruth Chester, Federica Pich, Matthew Treherne, Catherine Keen, Jennifer Rushworth, Daragh OConnell, Sophie V. Fuller, Giulia Gaimari, Emily Kate Price, Manuele Gragnolati, Elena Lombardi, Francesca Southerden, Rebecca Bowen, Nicolò Crisafi, Lachlan Hughes, Franco Costantini, David Bowe, Tristan Kay, Filippo Gianferrari, Simon Gilson, Rebekah Locke, Luca Lombardo, Peter Dent, George Ferzoco, Paola Nasti, Marco Grimaldi, David G. Lummus, Helena Phillips-Robins, Aistė Kiltinavičiūtė, Alessia Carrai, Ryan Pepin, Valentina Mele, Katherine Powlesland, Federica Coluzzi, K. P. Clarke, Nicolò Maldina, Theodore J. Cachey Jr., Chiara Sbordoni, Lorenzo DellOso, and Anne C.

Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780268207397