{"product_id":"the-design-in-the-wax-marc-cogan-9780268055585","title":"The Design in the Wax: The Structure of the Divine Comedy and Its Meaning","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Design in the Wax\u003c\/i\u003e recovers the specifically medieval interpretation of the structure which underlies each part of the poem and the poem as a whole, and shows readers how to discover the single consistent principle which organizes each part and the overall narrative. The incidents of the poem would remain hopelessly ambiguous were it not for the philosophical and theological distinctions embodied in the structure of the narrative, in whose light it is possible to reduce the ambiguity of concrete incidents to their intended allegorical content. Through medieval interpretations of Dante's sources, Marc Cogan discovers a single consistent moral and theological principle organizing each of the sections of the poem and its overall narrative. He argues that, using one common principle, Dante brings the separate allegories of the \u003ci\u003eInferno\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePurgatorio\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eParadiso\u003c\/i\u003e together into one great allegory, making the transformation of the principle into an ordered set of variations on the theme of love and its representation in human beings as the image of God. This allegory, he points out, provides a meditation on the nature of God and the capacities of human beings. \u003ci\u003eThe Design in the Wax\u003c\/i\u003e is a thought-provoking tool for all students of the \u003ci\u003eDivine Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e interested in studying Dante's calculated use of poetry to overcome the limits of human understanding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marc Cogan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0268055580\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780268055585\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Notre Dame Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 420\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06d","brand":"Marc Cogan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45933876642047,"sku":"9780268055585","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_62c8759c-0c40-4ef6-ba81-6b02d0f88840.jpg?v=1721789790","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-design-in-the-wax-marc-cogan-9780268055585","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}