Dante's Inferno

Dante's Inferno: difficulty and dead poetry

by Kirkpatrick, Robin

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In this re-assessment of Dante's 'Inferno', and of the place which it occupies in the plan of the whole 'Commedia', Kirkpatrick argues that Dante's thinking and poetry are subject to far greater internal tension than is commonly supposed. He then proceeds to analyse each of the 34 cantos of the 'Inferno'.

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  • Full title :Dante's Inferno : difficulty and dead poetry / Robin Kirkpatrick.

Summary

In this re-assessment of Dante's 'Inferno', and of the place which it occupies in the plan of the whole 'Commedia', Kirkpatrick argues that Dante's thinking and poetry are subject to far greater internal tension than is commonly supposed. He then proceeds to analyse each of the 34 cantos of the 'Inferno'.

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  • Publication Date:2008.

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Notes

Originally published: 1987.

The Physical Object

  • Description:xv, 445 p.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780521070522, 052107052X, 9780521307574, 0521307570
  • oclc:ocn227031782
  • LC Classification:PQ4443
  • Dewey Decimal:851.1

Table of Contents

1. Action and order: Cantos -- 2. History, nature and philosophy: Cantos -- 3 Narrative, myth and the individual: Cantos xii-xvi -- 4. Comedy and identity: Cantos xvii-xxiii -- 5. Signs in transition and the pathos of order: Cantos xxiv-xxvii -- 6. Endings, tragic and comic: Cantos xxviii-xxxiii -- 7. Conclusion: dead poetry: Inferno xxxiii and the Vita nuova.

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Subjects

Dante Alighieri Inferno (Dante Alighieri)

Writers

Kirkpatrick, Robin

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