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Dante's Vita Nuova and the New Testament: Hermeneutics and the Poetics of Revelation

Dante's Vita Nuova and the New Testament: Hermeneutics and the Poetics of Revelation

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A new interpretation of Dante's Vita nuova challenges scholars to reconsider the book's speculative emphases and provides an accessible exploration of the Western tradition's ideas about love and knowledge. It demonstrates how Dante's youthful poetic autobiography disrupts sectarian thinking and reconciles divine revelation and human invention, showing the intimate working of love at the source of inspired knowing.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 280 pages
\n Publication date: 09 September 2021
\n Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Dante's Vita nuova presents a groundbreaking interpretation that challenges scholars to reevaluate the book's speculative elements while providing a captivating exploration of profound ideas surrounding love and knowledge. By modeling knowledge as revelation and theology as poetry, this new reading offers a fresh perspective on Dante's masterpiece. It delves into the revolutionary ferment that would later manifest in Dante's extensive oeuvre and the literature of the Western canon. William Franke's insightful analysis demonstrates how Dante's youthful poetic autobiography disrupts sectarian thinking, reconciles divine revelation and human invention, and provides a framework for understanding religious revelation in the Bible. Ultimately, this revolutionary unification of Scripture and poetry reveals the intimate workings of love as the source of inspired knowing.

Dante's Vita nuova presents a groundbreaking interpretation that challenges scholars to reevaluate the book's speculative elements while providing a captivating exploration of profound ideas surrounding love and knowledge. By modeling knowledge as revelation and theology as poetry, this new reading offers a fresh perspective on Dante's masterpiece. It delves into the revolutionary ferment that would later manifest in Dante's extensive oeuvre and the literature of the Western canon. William Franke's insightful analysis demonstrates how Dante's youthful poetic autobiography disrupts sectarian thinking, reconciles divine revelation and human invention, and provides a framework for understanding religious revelation in the Bible. Ultimately, this revolutionary unification of Scripture and poetry reveals the intimate workings of love as the source of inspired knowing.

\n Weight: 532g\n
Dimension: 159 x 235 x 24 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781316516171\n \n

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