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Introducing the Dante Papers Trilogy: Introductory Papers on Dante Further Papers on Dante The Poetry of Search and the Poetry of Statement This introductory volume of essays on Dante by Dr. Dorothy L. Sayers will be eagerly sought by the many thousands of readers who already know her vigorous and vivid translation of the Inferno. As those who have heard Miss Sayer's lectures on Dante can testify, she brings to the interpretation of the Divine Comedy a vitalizing power of analysis and re-creation. Readers of Dante often become discouraged by the mass of factual detail which the older school of historical criticism has made available; mere aestheticism, however, unrelated to the time and space, is nor likely to satisfy them either. They will find in Miss Sayers' essays enough scholarly assistance to put themselves in the position of a contemporary reader; but their attention will chiefly be drawn to the relevance of the Divine Comedy to our present day world and way of life. Miss Sayers' emphasis on the ethical, rather than on the aesthetic, or historical, significance of Dante's work, comes as a welcome and bracing challenge to the confusion regarding values, whether of literature or of life, which characterizes the present age.
The essays in this volume explore Dante's interest in the human body from various intellectual standpoints, the contributors being a mixture of historians, literary scholars, and theologians. They are: 'The Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Body in the Commedia' by Simon A. Gilson (University of Warwick); 'Dante, Medicine and the Invisible Body' by Vivian Nutton (Wellcome Trust Centre, University of London); 'The Scientific Context of Dante's Embryology' by Joseph Ziegler (University of Haifa); 'Sanatio and Salvatio: 'Body' and Soul in the Experience of Dante's Afterlife' by Simone De Angelis (University of Berne); 'Nostalgia in Heaven: Embraces, Affection and Identity in the Commedia' by Manuele Gragnolati (Somerville College, Oxford); 'Divina anatomia: Laying Bare Body and Soul in the Commedia' by Elizabeth Mozzillo-Howell (formerly of the University of Cambridge); ''La rosa in che il verbo divino carne si fece': Human Bodies and Truth in the Poetic Narrative of the Commedia' by Vittorio Montemaggi (Churchill College, Cambridge); and 'World and Body: A Study in Dante's Cosmological Hermeneutics' by Oliver Davies (King's College, London).
Erich Auerbach’s Dante: Poet of the Secular World is an inspiring introduction to one of world’s greatest poets as well as a brilliantly argued and still provocative essay in the history of ideas. Here Auerbach, thought by many to be the greatest of twentieth-century scholar-critics, makes the seemingly paradoxical claim that it is in the poetry of Dante, supreme among religious poets, and above all in the stanzas of his Divine Comedy, that the secular world of the modern novel first took imaginative form. Auerbach’s study of Dante, a precursor and necessary complement to Mimesis, his magisterial overview of realism in Western literature, illuminates both the overall structure and the individual detail of Dante’s work, showing it to be an extraordinary synthesis of the sensuous and the conceptual, the particular and the universal, that redefined notions of human character and fate and opened the way into modernity. CONTENTS I. Historical Introduction; The Idea of Man in Literature II. Dante's Early Poetry III. The Subject of the "Comedy" IV. The Structure of the "Comedy" V. The Presentation VI. The Survival and Transformation of Dante's Vision of Reality Notes Index
Interpreting Dante is a collection of essays discussing the significance of the Dante commentary tradition on general study of the Comedy, the history of ideas, and literary criticism.