{"product_id":"in-dantes-wake-john-freccero-9780823264278","title":"In Dante's Wake: Reading from Medieval to Modern in the Augustinian Tradition","description":"Waking to find himself shipwrecked on a strange shore before a dark wood, the pilgrim of the \u003cem\u003eDivine Comedy\u003c\/em\u003e realizes he must set his sights higher and guide his ship to a radically different port. Starting on the sand of that very shore with Dante, John Freccero begins retracing the famous voyage recounted by the poet nearly 700 years ago. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFreccero follows pilgrim and poet through the \u003cem\u003eComedy\u003c\/em\u003e and then beyond, inviting readers both uninitiated and accomplished to join him in navigating this complex medieval masterpiece and its influence on later literature. Perfectly impenetrable in its poetry and unabashedly ambitious in its content, the \u003cem\u003eDivine Comedy\u003c\/em\u003e is the cosmos collapsed on itself, heavy with dense matter and impossible to expand. Yet Dante's great triumph is seen in the tiny, subtle fragments that make up the seamless whole, pieces that the poet painstakingly sewed together to form a work that insinuates itself into the reader and inspires the work of the next author. Freccero magnifies the most infinitesimal elements of that intricate construction to identify self-similar parts, revealing the full breadth of the great poem. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUsing this same technique, Freccero then turns to later giants of literature- Petrarch, Machiavelli, Donne, Joyce, and Svevo-demonstrating how these authors absorbed these smallest parts and reproduced Dante in their own work. In the process, he confronts questions of faith, friendship, gender, politics, poetry, and sexuality, so that traveling with Freccero, the reader will both cross unknown territory and reimagine familiar faces, swimming always in Dante's wake.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Freccero\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823264270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823264278\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 286\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.10w x 0.90d","brand":"John Freccero","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44761047269631,"sku":"9780823264278","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a62f4f36-4f4b-4418-84da-ec77c92ae633.jpg?v=1706680222","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/in-dantes-wake-john-freccero-9780823264278","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}