Dante and Difference: Writing in the 'Commedia' (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Series Number 2) - Softcover

Tambling, Jeremy

 
9780521044622: Dante and Difference: Writing in the 'Commedia' (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Series Number 2)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521044626 ISBN 13: 9780521044622
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Synopsis

This book presents an interesting approach to Dante's Divine Comedy, drawing on medieval theories of reading and understanding a text, and comparing them with modern critical theories of hermeneutics and approaches to the text associated with the work of Derrida. Dr Tambling rejects any attempt to identify a fundamental unity of thought in the poem and stresses the importance of opposition and divergence. This leads him to react against reductively 'allegorical' readings, and to ask in what way Christianity can be said to be articulated within the work. This important interpretation will be of value to all students and scholars of Dante, as well as to those whose work lies in the fields of general medieval literature, comparative literature and critical theory.

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Book Description

This book presents an interesting approach to Dante's Divine Comedy, drawing on medieval theories of reading and understanding a text, and comparing them with modern critical theories of hermeneutics and approaches to the text associated with the work of Derrida.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521044626
ISBN 13 
9780521044622
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
220

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