In a masterly synthesis of historical and literary analysis, Giuseppe
Mazzotta shows how medieval knowledge systems--the cycle of the
liberal arts, ethics, politics, and theology--interacted with poetry
and elevated the Divine Comedy to a central position in shaping all
other forms of discursive knowledge. To trace the circle of Dante's
intellectual concerns, Mazzotta examines the structure and aims of
medieval encyclopedias, especially in the twelfth and thirteenth
centuries; the medieval classification of knowledge; the battle of the
arts; the role of the imagination; the tension between knowledge and
vision; and Dante's theological speculations in his constitution of
what Mazzotta calls aesthetic, ludic theology. As a poet, Dante puts
himself at the center of intellectual debates of his time and
radically redefines their configuration. In this book, Mazzotta offers
powerful new readings of a poet who stands amid his culture's crisis
and fragmentation, one who responds to and counters them in his work.
In a critical gesture that enacts Dante's own insight, Mazzotta's
practice is also a fresh contribution to the theoretical literary
debates of the present. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton
Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again
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backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
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heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
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9781400863044
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2014
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Princeton University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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