Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture
- New York Fordham University Press 2006
- 475p
includes index and biblioraphy
1. A philosophy of Desire Dante and the lyric past ...........23 Guittone`s Ora parra, Dante`s Doglia mi reca, and the commedia`s Anatomy of Desire .....47 Dante and Cavalcanti .......70 Medieval Multiculturalism and Dante`s Theology of Hell .....102 2. Christian and Pagan Intertexts why did dante write the Commedia? Dante and the Visionary tradition ........125 Minos`s Tail: The labor of Devising hell ..........132 Q: Does dante hope for vergil`s Salvation .......151 Arachne, Argus, and St. John: Transgressive art in Dante and ovid ...........158 3. Ordering the Macrotext : Time and Narrative Cominciandomi dal Principio infino a la Fine: Forging Anti-Narrative in the vita Nuova ...........175 The making of a Lyric Sequence : Time and Narrative in petrarch`s Rerum vulgarium fragmenta ...........193 The wheel of the decameron .......224 Editing dante`s Rime and Italian Cultural History ..............245 4. Gender Le parole son Femmine ei Fatti son Maschi...........281 Dante and Francesca da rimini..................304 Sotto benda: Gender in the lyrics of Dante and Guittone D`arezzo .............333 Notes toward a gendered history of italian Literature, with a discussion of Dante`s Beatrix loquax..........360