Dante and Difference: Writing in the Commedia

TAMBLING, Jeremy

ISBN 10: 0521342422 / ISBN 13: 9780521342421

Published by Cambridge U P, 1988

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~Bookplate to inside front board. ~Robust packaging. All UK orders trackable, others on request. Size: x, 206pp. With dustwrapper.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dante and Difference: Writing in the Commedia
• Publisher: Cambridge U P
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521342422
• ISBN 13: 9780521342421
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: 1st edn.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Binding tight, text unmarked
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature & Fiction: Christian

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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.

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.