Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity by Shaw, Prue

Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity

This is far more than an exegesis of Dante's three-part Commedia. Shaw communicates the imaginative power, the...
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Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity by Shaw, Prue

Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity

$26.62

Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity

$26.62
Author: Prue Shaw
Format: Paperback
Language: English

This is far more than an exegesis of Dante's three-part Commedia. Shaw communicates the imaginative power, the linguistic skill and the emotional intensity of Dante's poetry--the qualities that make the Commedia perhaps the greatest literary work of all time and not simply a medieval treatise on morality and religion.

The book provides a graphic account of the complicated geography of Dante's version of the afterlife and a sure guide to thirteenth-century Florence and the people and places that influenced him. At the same time it offers a literary experience that lifts the reader into the universal realms of poetry and mythology, creating links not only to the classical world of Virgil and Ovid but also to modern art and poetry, the world of T. S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney and many others.

Dante's questions are our questions: What is it to be a human being? How should we judge human behavior? What matters in life and in death? Reading Dante helps the reader to understand Dante's answers to these timeless questions and to see how surprisingly close they sometimes are to modern answers.

Reading Dante is an astonishingly lyrical work that will appeal to both those who've never read the Commedia and those who have. It underscores Dante's belief that poetry can change human lives.



Author: Prue Shaw
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published: 03/30/2015
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781631490064

About the Author
Shaw, Prue: - Prue Shaw is emeritus reader in Italian studies at University College London and the editor of the edizione nazionale of Dante's Monarchia and of a digital edition of the Commedia. She lives in Cambridge, England.

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