Simone Marchesi

Dante and Augustine (eBook, PDF)

Linguistics, Poetics, Hermeneutics

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Produktbeschreibung

Examining Dante's life-long dialogue with Augustine from a new point of view, Marchesi goes beyond traditional inquiries to engage more technical questions relating to Dante's evolving ideas on how language, poetry, and interpretation should work.

MarchesiSimone:

Simone Marchesi is an associate professor in the Department of French and Italian at Princeton University.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442690295
• Artikelnr.: 48945759

Autorenporträt

Simone Marchesi is a professor of French and Italian at Princeton University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
1. Linguistics
a. The nature of language and the common project of Convivio and De
vulgari eloquentia: enucleare aliis conceptum
b. The quest for a perfect language: Latin as grammar
c. An alternative model: Augustine again
d. Concetto: the redefinition of conceptual speech in the Commedia
e. Concetto again: Dante's incarnational poetics in Paradiso
2. Poetics
a. The making of poetry: verba and sentential as discretive mixta
b. Meaning in poetry: the task of prose
c. Convenientia across secular and biblical writings
d. On translating meaning: biblical poetry and the sweetness of the
Psalms
3. Hermeneutics
a. The burden of interpretation: authorial intention in Dante's
"minor" works
b. Per te poeta fui, per te cristiano: texts and authors framing
Statius' Christianity
c. Reading beyond the author: two stumbling blocks in Purgatorio
XXII
d. Augustine's regula caritatis and the interpretation of the
Commedia
e. Augustine's hermeneutics and the poetics of the Spirit
Conclusion
Works Cited