Dante by Havely, Nick

Dante (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780631228523)

Vendor: Nick Havely
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Format: Hardcover
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Dante by Havely, Nick

Dante

$127.95
Dante by Havely, Nick

Dante

$127.95
Format: Hardcover
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A comprehensive guide to Dante's life and literature, with an emphasis on his Commedia. This text looks at the influences that shaped Dante's writing, and the reception of his work by later readers, from the 14th century to the present.

  • Introduces Dante through four main approaches: the context of his life and career; his literary and cultural traditions; key themes, episodes and passages in his own work, especially the Commedia; and the reception and appropriation of his work by later readers, from the fourteenth century to the present
  • Written by an expert Dante scholar
  • Provides new translations of substantial passages from Dante's poems and from the world of his contemporaries
  • Includes explanatory diagrams of Dante's 'other-worlds', and a section of illustrations by medieval and modern artists
  • Builds a vivid and complex picture of Dante's imagination, intellect and literary presence
  • Helpful bibliographies include relevant web resources


Author: Nick Havely
ISBN-10: 0631228527
ISBN-13: 9780631228523
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2007
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.16h x 6.35w x 0.96d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2007 pg. 270
By Nick Havely
By Nick Havely
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Nick Havely has taught courses on Dante and on medieval literature for over thirty years at the University of York. His published work on Italian trecento poetry began with a volume of translations: Chaucer's Boccaccio: Sources for Troilus and the Knight's and Franklin's Tales (1980; reissued 1992) and includes Dante's Modern Afterlife: Reception and Response from Blake to Heaney (1998) and Dante and the Franciscans: Poverty and the Papacy in the 'Commedia' (2004). He has recently been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for his next project, which is a study entitled Dante in the English-Speaking World, from the Fourteenth Century to the Present.

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