Undivine Comedy

by Teodolinda Barolini

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Accepting Dante's prophetic truth claims on their own terms, Teodolinda Barolini proposes a "detheologized" reading as a global new approach to the Divine Comedy. Not aimed at excising theological concerns from Dante, this approach instead attempts to break out of the hermeneutic guidelines that Dante structured into his poem and that have resulted in theologized readings whose outcomes have been overdetermined by the poet. By detheologizing, the reader can emerge from this poet's hall of mirrors and discover the narrative techniques that enabled Dante to forge a true fiction. Foregrounding the formal exigencies that Dante masked as ideology, Barolini...Read more
  • ISBN10 1282751603
  • ISBN13 9781282751606
  • Publish Date 1 January 1992
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 9 June 2015
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Princeton University Press
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 356
  • Language English