{"product_id":"dante-and-augustine-simone-marchesi-9781487526184","title":"Dante and Augustine: Linguistics, Poetics, Hermeneutics","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt several junctures in his career, Dante paused to consider what it meant to be a writer. The questions he posed were both simple and wide-ranging: How does language, in particular 'poetic language, ' work? Can poetry be translated? What is the relationship between a text and its commentary? Who controls the meaning of a literary work? In \u003cem\u003eDante and Augustine\u003c\/em\u003e, Simone Marchesi re-examines these questions in light of the influence that Augustine's reflections on similar issues exerted on Dante's sense of his task as a poet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamining Dante's life-long dialogue with Augustine from a new point of view, Marchesi goes beyond traditional inquiries to engage more technical questions relating to Dante's evolving ideas on how language, poetry, and interpretation should work. In this engaging literary analysis, Dante emerges as a versatile thinker, committed to a radical defence of poetry and yet always ready to rethink, revise, and rewrite his own positions on matters of linguistics, poetics, and hermeneutics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Simone Marchesi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1487526180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781487526184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/07\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.87lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d","brand":"Simone Marchesi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46140806562047,"sku":"9781487526184","price":42.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_41f34f0c-8d52-47e4-97a5-dcf7b7d82222.jpg?v=1726597085","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dante-and-augustine-simone-marchesi-9781487526184","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}