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Anniversary Collection: Dante As Dramatist : The Myth of the Earthly Paradise and Tragic Vision in the Divine Comedy by Franco Masciandaro (1991, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Pennsylvania Press

ISBN-100812230698

ISBN-139780812230697

eBay Product ID (ePID)878032

Product Key Features

Number of Pages224 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameDante As Dramatist : the Myth of the Earthly Paradise and Tragic Vision in the Divine Comedy

SubjectMedieval, European / Italian

Publication Year1991

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

AuthorFranco Masciandaro

SeriesAnniversary Collection

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight23.5 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN91-002536

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

IllustratedYes

Grade ToCollege Graduate Student

SynopsisIn Dante as Dramatist , Masciandaro refocuses on the "poetry of the theater" in the Commedia by examining Dante's interpretation of the myth of the Earthly Paradise as it is represented in key episodes of Inferno and Purgatorio ., The overwhelming concentration on questions of allegory in Dante studies, Franco Masciandaro contends, has come at the expense of considerations of the poem's literal dimension. And while the dramatic quality of the Divine Comedy is often recognized, few critics have made it the object of sustained inquiry. In Dante as Dramatist , Masciandaro refocuses on the "poetry of the theater" in the Commedia by examining Dante's interpretation of the myth of the Earthly Paradise as it is represented in a number of key episodes of Inferno and Purgatorio . His principal objective is twofold: to analyze Dante's dramaturgy, especially the creative force of the tragic rhythm that the scenes under scrutiny produce as they succeed one another; and to show how Dante stages the action of the pilgrim's journey to the Earthly Paradise as the fundamental conflict between the dream of a future, second innocence, which ignores the tact of evil, and the recovery of another innocence, analogous to that found in Eden before the Fall. Dante as Dramatist will be of unique interest not only to students and scholars of Dante but also to those who study dramatic forms in literature and theories of the tragic.

LC Classification NumberPQ4419.E33M37 1991