Details
- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Lives of Dante: Why Now?
- Ist Teil von
- Dante Studies, 2018, Vol.136 (1), p.213-222
- Ort / Verlag
- Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2018
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- Alma/SFX Local Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- But life, or Biography, sells, whereas literary criticism is approaching extinction as a bookstore genre. Seasoned Dantisti will know that it is very difficult to convince a university press to publish a book on Dante, unless it be a Handbook, a Guide, or (best of all) a Life. And so there arises the temptation to write a book on Dante that might in essence be literary criticism, but must outwardly appear to be life-like. Dante as a multifarious, foreign textual corpus intimidates, but Dante as a life becomes manageable, containable, one more celebrity to be collected at high speed.
- Sprache
- Englisch; Italienisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 2470-4261, 2470-427X, 0070-2862eISSN: 2470-427X, 2329-2180DOI: 10.1353/das.2018.0011Titel-ID: cdi_proquest_journals_2314322882
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- 1265-1321, 20th century, 21st century, Aesthetics, African American literature, Alighieri, Dante (1265-1321), Authors, Italian, Authorship, Baraka, Amiri (1934-2014), Bildungsroman, Biographies, Biography, Bookstores, British English, Criticism and interpretation, Dante Alighieri, Exegesis & hermeneutics, Historians, History, History and criticism, Italian literature, Literary criticism, Literary devices, Literary influences, Literary translation, Logic, Poetry, Publishing, Publishing industry, Readers, Sleep, To 1500, Websites, Writers