Reading Dante: The Pursuit of Meaning

Reading Dante: The Pursuit of Meaning
ISBN-10
0739159941
ISBN-13
9780739159941
Series
Reading Dante
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
304
Language
English
Published
2007-09-16
Publisher
Lexington Books
Author
Jesper Hede

Description

Reading Dante: The Pursuit of Meaning examines the problem of thematic coherence in Dante's Divina Commedia. Unlike many Dante scholars who maintain that the poem's unity is the account of a journey through the afterworld, Jesper Hede argues that a systematic parallel reading of the poem's three parts (Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise) reveals that it is the vision of divine order that provides the poem with its thematic unity.

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