UID:
edocfu_9958353192002883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781442696693
Content:
A highly original and comprehensive reading, The Poetics of Dante's Paradiso challenges established scholarly interpretations to demonstrate that the intricacies of Dante's text reveal a subtle irony, employed to deliver a sharp critique of the corrupt church and empire of his own time.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Preface and Acknowledgments --
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Notes on the Texts --
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Introduction --
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Prologue I. DXV and Paradiso --
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Prologue II. The Poetics of Paradiso --
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Chapter 1. Heaven of the Moon: Grammar (II–IV) --
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Chapter 2. Heaven of Mercury: Dialectics (V–VII) --
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Chapter 3. Heaven of Venus: Rhetoric (VIII–IX) --
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Chapter 4. Heaven of the Sun: Arithmetic (X–XIV) --
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Chapter 5. Heaven of Mars: Music (XV–XVII) --
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Chapter 6. Heaven of Jupiter: Geometry (XVIII–XX) --
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Chapter 7. Heaven of Saturn: Astronomy (XXI–XXII) --
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Chapter 8. Fixed Stars: Physics and Metaphysics (XXIV–XXVII) --
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Chapter 9. Primum Mobile: Moral Philosophy (XXVII–XXIX) --
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Chapter 10. Empyrean: Theology (XXX–XXXIII) --
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Conclusions --
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Index
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3138/9781442696693
URL:
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442696693
