Dante and the Mediterranean Comedy [electronic resource] : From Muslim Spain to Post-Colonial Italy / by Andrea Celli.

Erişim Adresi
Link
ISBN
9783031074028
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
EK/3412
Yazar
Celli, Andrea. (orcid)0000-0001-7848-957X Link
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2022.
Yayın Bilgisi
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XIII, 278 p. 6 illus. in color. online resource.
Dizi
The New Middle Ages, 2945-5944
İçindekiler Notu
1. Introduction: A Mediterranean Comedy -- Part I. History of Criticism -- 2. A Post-Colonial Comedy: Enrico Cerulli on Dante -- 3. Beyond Good and Evil? More on Cerulli and Italian Orientalism -- Part II. Exercises in Criticism -- 4. Exposing Maometto’s Contrapasso: The Arabic Sources from Spain and the Early Commentators on the Commedia -- 5. A Transreligious Hell: Dante in the Prisons of the Inquisition in Palermo -- 6. The City Lament: Mediterranean Microecologies of Courtly Love -- 7. Conclusion: A Sea of Differences.
Özet, vb.
“Celli’s work stands at the forefront of a new generation of scholars who seek to revise fundamentally our understanding of Dante, and literary works more generally, in terms of the broader Mediterranean world and across religious traditions and historical eras. The originality of Celli’s approach cannot be overstated, and indeed it renders difficult any attempt to confine him to a specific disciplinary category.” —William Caferro, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History, Vanderbilt University “One of the most notable aspects of Celli’s scholarship, at work in this book, is the ease with which he moves from the most minute detail to the large picture. Or rather, he is remarkably adept at showing how the smallest action-such as an anonymous reader’s substituting a word in the margin of a printed obituary-can expose what is at stake not only across someone’s academic career but also across distinct disciplines and historical time periods.” —Jo Ann Cavallo, Professor of Italian, Columbia University In recent decades the concept of Mediterranean has been cited with increasing frequency in relation to the study of medieval literatures. And yet, in what sense would Dante’s Comedy be ‘Mediterranean’? Is it because of its Greek-Arabic and Islamic sources? Dante and the Mediterranean Comedy analyzes the ideological function of references to the sea in the study of the Comedy undertaken by Enrico Cerulli, a scholar of Somali-Ethiopian languages, and a colonial governor of ‘Italian East Africa.’ Then it presents novel lines of inquiry on the reception and appropriation of the poem, such as the presence of Islamic sources in early commentaries of the Comedy, and cross-cultural allusions to Dante’s Hell in some graffiti on the walls of the Spanish Inquisition prison in Palermo. The image of the Mediterranean that seeps through the poem and through the history of its circulation is vivid yet hardly idyllic. Andrea Celli is Associate Professor of Italian and Mediterranean Studies at the University of Connecticut, USA.
Konu
Literature, Medieval.
European literature.
Europe __ History __ 476-1492.
Islam __ Study and teaching.
Medieval Literature.
European Literature.
History of Medieval Europe.
Islamic Studies.
Kurum Adı
SpringerLink (Online service)
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