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Paperback. Condition: Good. The best and most eloqent introduction to Dante in our time.

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Paperback. Condition: New. Keenly aware that thousands of books have been written about The Divine Comedy, Prue Shaw-one of the world's foremost Dante authorities-is convinced that an accessible, non-scholarly work that explicated Dante is needed. Just as Dante becomes a poet with a prophetic mission, Reading Dante becomes far more than an exegesis of Dante's three-part Commedia. It offers a literary experience that lifts the reader into the universal realms of poetry and mythology, revealing how one can recover time-past through memory and language.Whether challenging the notion that Dante was vindictive, decoding the numerology that can confound readers or positioning Dante's tortured life within the framework of fourteenth-century Florence, Shaw creates an astonishingly lyrical work that will appeal to both those who've never read the Commedia and those who have. Reading Dante underscores Dante's belief that poetry can change human lives.…

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Hardback. Condition: Good. The best and most eloquent introduction to Dante for our time.

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Paperback. Condition: New. Keenly aware that thousands of books have been written about The Divine Comedy, Prue Shaw-one of the world's foremost Dante authorities-is convinced that an accessible, non-scholarly work that explicated Dante is needed. Just as Dante becomes a poet with a prophetic mission, Reading Dante becomes far more than an exegesis of Dante's three-part Commedia. It offers a literary experience that lifts the reader into the universal realms of poetry and mythology, revealing how one can recover time-past through memory and language.Whether challenging the notion that Dante was vindictive, decoding the numerology that can confound readers or positioning Dante's tortured life within the framework of fourteenth-century Florence, Shaw creates an astonishingly lyrical work that will appeal to both those who've never read the Commedia and those who have. Reading Dante underscores Dante's belief that poetry can change human lives.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Prue Shaw is one of the world's foremost authorities on Dante. Written with the general reader in mind, Reading Dante brings her knowledge to bear in an accessible yet expert introduction to his great poem. This is far more than an exegesis of Dantes three-part Commedia. Shaw communicates the imaginative power, the linguistic skill and the emotional intensity of Dantes poetrythe qualities that make the Commedia perhaps the greatest literary work of all time and not simply a medieval treatise on morality and religion. The book provides a graphic account of the complicated geography of Dante's version of the afterlife and a sure guide to thirteenth-century Florence and the people and places that influenced him. At the same time it offers a literary experience that lifts the reader into the universal realms of poetry and mythology, creating links not only to the classical world of Virgil and Ovid but also to modern art and poetry, the world of T. S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney and many others. Dante's questions are our questions: What is it to be a human being? How should we judge human behavior? What matters in life and in death? Reading Dante helps the reader to understand Dantes answers to these timeless questions and to see how surprisingly close they sometimes are to modern answers. Reading Dante is an astonishingly lyrical work that will appeal to both those whove never read the Commedia and those who have. It underscores Dante's belief that poetry can change human lives. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Pap. Minor shelf-wear to wraps, else a bright, clean copy. Text in English. .

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. The Commedia, Dante's epic story of one man's journey from the darkness and terror of hell to the revelation of divine light in heaven, is one of the greatest works of Western literature, but it can seem daunting to the English-speaking reader. College courses often cherry-pick the most arresting passages from Inferno and barely glance at the equally compelling Purgatorio and Paradiso. In The Essential "Commedia," Prue Shaw, a renowned Dante scholar, expertly guides the reader on an enthralling tour through all three realms of the afterlife. Extensive passages of the work's greatest poetry-about one third of the whole-are astutely excerpted and presented in English translation alongside the original Italian. A linking commentary summarizes the elided sections, distilling the epic into a series of vivid vignettes while preserving its narrative continuity and cosmic sweep. A notable feature of this book is its exceptional readability. The translations into modern idiomatic English avoid archaism, padding, and syntactic contortion. A thrilling but difficult text is made wholly accessible by a scholar whose expertise enables her to highlight and contextualize the essential aspects of the poem: the imaginative power of the drama; the poetic brilliance of the language; the intellectual excitement as we grapple with fundamental questions about the meaning and value of human lives. As Shaw deftly guides us through the afterlife, we discover that the issues Dante's poem engages with remain utterly modern: power, corruption, and the thirst for wealth; honesty, integrity, and courage. The human condition has not changed in seven hundred years. Shaw's timeless translation is a perfect point of entry for anyone interested in exploring this foundational text of Western literature, a supreme achievement of the human spirit. Prue Shaws absorbing, highly accessible introduction to the Commedia promises to be the essential edition for years to come Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Hardback. Condition: New. Dante's epic story of a man's journey from darkness to the revelation of divine light is one of the greatest works of Western literature. Because of its length and its language, it is viewed as forbidding. Undergraduate courses often cherry-pick from the Inferno and barely glance at Purgatorio and Paradiso.In The Essential Commedia, Prue Shaw fillets the epic to create an absorbing tour of all three realms of the afterlife. Extensive passages, astutely excerpted, are offered in translation alongside the original, making it easy to read Dante in English, Italian or both. The translation into modern, idiomatic English avoids archaisms, padding and syntactic contortions. With no loss of rigour, a complex text is rendered accessible by a teacher whose decades of experience enable her to highlight those aspects of the poem readers will appreciate.Prue Shaw's, Reading Dante, was praised as:"[an] experience of a lifetime[.]"-The Spectator"Writing an introduction [to The Divine Comedy] for the general reader is not an easy task. Prue Shaw has done this in a way that manages to be at the same time scholarly, compelling and original."-The Times Literary Supplement[Shaw] keeps us so enthralled with her compelling and fast-paced prose that the only reason one would want to put down this book is to open the one she is talking about."-Times Higher Education.…

Condition: New. 2015. Reprint. Paperback. The best and most eloquent introduction to Dante for our time. Num Pages: 352 pages, 34 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 139 x 27. Weight in Grams: 280. . . . . .

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered brown cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine, not price clipped). Pp. xxix + 318, illus with b&w photos (no inscriptions).

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