Believing in Dante: Truth in Fiction
Jun 2022 · Cambridge University Press
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277
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About this ebook
Alison Cornish offers a compelling new take on the Commedia with modern sensibilities in mind. Believing in Dante re-examines the infernal dramas of Dante's masterpiece that alienate and perplex modern readers, offering an invigorating view of the whole Divine Comedy, bringing it to meaningful life today. Addressing the characteristics that distance an author like Dante from the modern world, Alison Cornish shows the value of critically and constructively engaging with texts that do not coincide with current worldviews. She thereby reveals how we might discover constellations by which to navigate the process of reading. Written with incisiveness and sophistication, this landmark book elucidates Dante's eminently readable universe: one where we can and must choose what we want to believe.
About the author
Alison Cornish is Professor and Chair of Italian Studies at New York University and current President of the Dante Society of America. She is the author of Reading Dante's Stars (2000), Vernacular Translation in Dante's Italy (Cambridge University Press, 2011), a commentary on Dante's Paradiso (2017), and numerous essays on Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. She is a former fellow at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti. She is also the curator of the YouTube series, 'Canto per Canto: Conversations with Dante in Our Time'.
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