Dante: The Divine ComedyCambridge University Press, 2004 M01 19 - 118 pages In this accessible critical introduction to Dante's Divine Comedy Robin Kirkpatrick principally focuses on Dante as a poet and storyteller. He addresses important questions such as Dante's attitude towards Virgil, and demonstrates how an early work such as the Vita nuova is a principal source of the literary achievement of the Comedy. His detailed reading reveals how the great narrative poem explores the relationship that Dante believed to exist between God as creator of the universe and the human being as a creature of God. |
Contents
Approaches to The Divine Comedy | 1 |
Change vision and language the early works and Inferno Canto Two | 21 |
The Divine Comedy | 55 |
The Inferno | 57 |
The Purgatorio | 78 |
The Paradiso | 94 |
After Dante | 110 |
Guide to further reading | 115 |
Common terms and phrases
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Dante: The Divine Comedy Landmarks of World Literature Student guide series |
| Author | Robin Kirkpatrick |
| Edition | illustrated, revised |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2004 |
| ISBN | 0521539943, 9780521539944 |
| Length | 118 pages |
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