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Formulas of repetition in Dante's Commedia : signposted journeys across textual space

Demonstrates that when the reader notes that the formula 'ne l'etterno essilio' - in eternal exile - re-occurs in "Purgatorio 21" accompanied by the same rhyme words as when it first appears in "Inferno 23", it is a sign that these two episodes can be linked for further interpretation, despite the 32 cantos of intervening textual space.
Print Book, English, 2001
McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, 2001
x, 205 p. ; 24 cm.
9780773521926, 0773521925
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