Poetics of Redemption: Dante’s Divine Comedy

Andreas Kablitz

Published by De Gruyter 2021

Poetics of Redemption

Dante’s Divine Comedy

Andreas Kablitz

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110637106

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The essays on Dante collected in this volume interpret his Commedia as the attempt of a renewal of the Christian work of salvation by means of literature. In the view of his author, the sacro poema responds to a historical moment of extreme danger, in which nothing less than the redemption of mankind is at stake. The degradation of the medieval Roman Empire and the rise of an early capitalism in his birth town Florence, entailing a pernicious moral depravation for Dante, are to him nothing else but a variety of symptoms of the backfall of the world into its state prior to its salvation by the incarnation of Christ.

Dante presents his journey into the other world as an endeavor to escape these risks. Mobilizing the traditional procedures of literary discourse for this purpose, he aims at writing a text that overcomes the deficiencies of the traditional Book of Revelation that, on its own terms, no longer seems capable of fulfilling his traditional tasks. The immense revaluation of poetry implied in Dante’s Commedia, thus, contemporarily involves the claim of a substantial weakness of the institutional religious discourse.

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Andreas Kablitz, Cologne University / Petrarca-Institut, Cologne, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Lecturae Dantis Reflections of the Ulysses Canto (Inferno XXVI) in Contemporary Scholarly Praxis and in Modern Research Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Art in the Afterlife or God as Scupltor The Reliefs in Dante’s Purgatorio (Purg. X–XII) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Videre – Invidere The Phenomenology of Perception and the Ontology of Purgatory (Purg. XIII) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Temporality and Eternity in Dante’s Purgatorio The Valley of the Princes at the Foot of Mount Purgatory (Purg. VII–VIII) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
The End of the Sacrum Imperium From Dante to Petrarch: The Evolution of the Representation of History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Poetics of Knowledge in the Paradiso (Paradiso XXVII and XXX) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
List of Original Publications Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Italianisten, Literaturwissenschaftler, Komparatisten
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 243
Keywords: Medieval Italian Literature; Dante Alighieri

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Published: February 8, 2021
ISBN: 9783110637106

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Published: February 8, 2021
ISBN: 9783110634099

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Published: December 19, 2022
ISBN: 9783111088907