Dante's "Vita Nova": A Collaborative Reading

A new approach to reading Dantes Vita nova is presented in this original volume, focusing on its textual and historical context and highlighting its rich polysemy and structural fluidity. It offers insights into Dantes social environment, relationships with other poets, and evolving vision of poetrys scope.

Format: Paperback / softback
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 , showcased through a diverse range of scholarly approaches to the text.

This groundbreaking volume emerged as the culmination of a two-year-long series of international seminars, meticulously designed to explore a fresh perspective on Dantes Vita nova. By analyzing each of its forty-two chapters individually, the focus shifts from its relationship to the Divine Comedy to its textual and historical context. This decoupling has liberated the contributors to draw attention to various significant literary features of the text, including its rich and complex polysemy, as well as its structural fluidity. Moreover, the volume provides valuable insights into Dantes social environment, his relationships with other poets, and his evolving vision of the scope of his poetry.

Utilizing a diverse array of critical methodologies and hermeneutical approaches, this volume presents scholars with an opportunity to reread the Vita nova in a renewed context and from a multitude of literary, cultural, and ideological perspectives.

Contributors to this volume include renowned scholars such as 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 26 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780268207403