Dante's Epic Journeys / David Thompson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (98 pages)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421436319
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Contents:
Introduction -- Part one: Three Allegorical Journeys -- Dante's Twofold Itinerary -- Odysseus among the Allegorists -- Aeneas's Spiritual Itinerary -- Letter and Allegory -- Part two: Ulysses, Aeneas, Dante -- Ulysses and the Critics -- Ulysses in the Commedia -- Ulysses and Aeneas -- Ulysses and Dante -- Aeneas and Dante
Summary: This essay in comparative literature represents the first extended attempt to relate Dante's major allegorical mode to classical and medieval interpretations of epic poetry rather than to patristic biblical exegesis. It also is the first comprehensive explanation of Dante's enigmatic Ulysses. Thompson strives to shed new light not only on Dante's allegory - and thus upon the whole troubled question of exactly what an allegory was thought to be but also on the intricate relationship between poet and poem and between Dante's spiritual journeys and his written representation of those itineraries.
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Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 1974.

Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.

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Introduction -- Part one: Three Allegorical Journeys -- Dante's Twofold Itinerary -- Odysseus among the Allegorists -- Aeneas's Spiritual Itinerary -- Letter and Allegory -- Part two: Ulysses, Aeneas, Dante -- Ulysses and the Critics -- Ulysses in the Commedia -- Ulysses and Aeneas -- Ulysses and Dante -- Aeneas and Dante

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This essay in comparative literature represents the first extended attempt to relate Dante's major allegorical mode to classical and medieval interpretations of epic poetry rather than to patristic biblical exegesis. It also is the first comprehensive explanation of Dante's enigmatic Ulysses. Thompson strives to shed new light not only on Dante's allegory - and thus upon the whole troubled question of exactly what an allegory was thought to be but also on the intricate relationship between poet and poem and between Dante's spiritual journeys and his written representation of those itineraries.

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