Dante and the Mediterranean Comedy From Muslim Spain to Post-Colonial Italy
Or rather, he is remarkably adept at showing how the smallest action-such as an anonymous reader’s substituting a word in the margin of a printed obituary-can expose what is at stake not only across someone’s academic career but also across distinct disciplines and historical time periods.” —Jo Ann...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2022, 2022
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022 |
| Series: | The New Middle Ages
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: A Mediterranean Comedy
- Part I. History of Criticism
- 2. A Post-Colonial Comedy: Enrico Cerulli on Dante
- 3. Beyond Good and Evil? More on Cerulli and Italian Orientalism
- Part II. Exercises in Criticism
- 4. Exposing Maometto’s Contrapasso: The Arabic Sources from Spain and the Early Commentators on the Commedia
- 5. A Transreligious Hell: Dante in the Prisons of the Inquisition in Palermo
- 6. The City Lament: Mediterranean Microecologies of Courtly Love
- 7. Conclusion: A Sea of Differences