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  • Danteby Barbara Reynolds

    I.B.Tauris 2013; US$ 14.98

    Dante is one of the towering figures of medieval European literature. Yet many riddles and questions about him persist. By re-reading Dante with an open mind, Barbara Reynolds makes remarkable discoveries and unlocks previously hidden secrets about this greatest of Florentine poets. A fundamental enigma has tantalised readers of the 'Commedia' for... more...

  • Thinking Poetryby Joseph Acquisto

    Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 85.00

    This volume of essays seeks to establish a dialogue between poetry and philosophy where each could be said to read the other and announces important new paths for a reinvigorated study of lyric poetry in the decades to come. more...

  • Scapelandby Gillian B. Pierce

    Editions Rodopi 2012; US$ 61.00

    Scapeland: Writing the Landscape from Diderot’s Salons to the Postmodern Museum is a comparative, interdisciplinary study tracing theories of the sublime and a history of spectatorship from Diderot’s eighteenth-century French Salons , through art criticism by Baudelaire and Breton, to Jean-François Lyotard’s postmodern exhibition... more...

  • Dante and the Sense of Transgressionby William Franke

    Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 110.00

    In Dante and the Sense of Transgression , William Franke combines literary-critical analysis with philosophical and theological reflection to cast new light on Dante's poetic vision. Conversely, Dante's medieval masterpiece becomes our guide to rethinking some of the most pressing issues of contemporary theory. Beyond suggestive archetypes... more...

  • Islam and the Divine Comedyby Miguel Asin Palacios

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 190.00

    A study of the influence of Islam on Dante's "Divine Comedy". more...

  • Boccaccio's Decameron and the Ciceronian Renaissanceby Michaela Paasche Grudin; Robert Grudin

    Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 90.00

    Boccaccio's Decameron and the Ciceronian Renaissance demonstrates that Boccaccio's puzzling masterpiece takes on organic consistency when viewed as an early modern adaptation of a pre-Christian, humanistic vision. more...

  • Une intention de salutby John Naughton

    Editions Rodopi 2012; US$ 55.90

    Comment participer à ce que la vie a de divin – si on ne croit plus en Dieu ? Comment lui donner une signification, si on la sent privée du fondement ontologique qui autrefois lui garantissait sa cohérence? Que deviennent enfin l’ espérance , et surtout la charité , dans un monde où la foi ne semble plus praticable... more...

  • Dante Alighieris Gerechtigkeitssinnby Jens Petersen

    De Gruyter 2011; US$ 56.00

    Dante's Divine Comedy is one of the most important works in the history of world literature. Although the theme of justice is of central importance in this work, studies of its content from a philosophy of law perspective have been thus far primarily conducted by researchers of Romance languages and literature rather than by legal experts. This is... more...

  • Dante in Loveby A. N. Wilson

    Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011; US$ 25.99

    For William Butler Yeats, Dante Alighieri was ?the chief imagination of Christendom.? For T. S. Eliot, he was of supreme importance, both as poet and philosopher. Coleridge championed his introduction to an English readership. Tennyson based his poem ?Ulysses? on lines from the Inferno . Byron chastised an ?Ungrateful Florence? for exiling Dante.... more...

  • Dante's Deadly Sinsby Raymond Angelo Belliotti

    Wiley 2011; US$ 103.95

    Dante’s Deadly Sins is a unique study of the moral philosophy behind Dante’s master work that considers the Commedia as he intended, namely, as a practical guide to moral betterment. Focusing on Inferno and Purgatorio , Belliotti examines the puzzles and paradoxes of Dante’s moral assumptions, his treatment of the 7 deadly... more...