Introductory Papers On Dante

Author : Dorothy L. Sayers
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1597524913
Total Pages : 251 pages
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Download or read book Introductory Papers on Dante written by Dorothy L. Sayers and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing the Dante Papers Trilogy: Introductory Papers on Dante Further Papers on Dante The Poetry of Search and the Poetry of Statement This introductory volume of essays on Dante by Dr. Dorothy L. Sayers will be eagerly sought by the many thousands of readers who already know her vigorous and vivid translation of the Inferno. As those who have heard Miss Sayer's lectures on Dante can testify, she brings to the interpretation of the Divine Comedy a vitalizing power of analysis and re-creation. Readers of Dante often become discouraged by the mass of factual detail which the older school of historical criticism has made available; mere aestheticism, however, unrelated to the time and space, is nor likely to satisfy them either. They will find in Miss Sayers' essays enough scholarly assistance to put themselves in the position of a contemporary reader; but their attention will chiefly be drawn to the relevance of the Divine Comedy to our present day world and way of life. Miss Sayers' emphasis on the ethical, rather than on the aesthetic, or historical, significance of Dante's work, comes as a welcome and bracing challenge to the confusion regarding values, whether of literature or of life, which characterizes the present age.

Author : Dorothy Leigh Sayers
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Author : Dorothy Leigh Sayers
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Total Pages : 225 pages
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Download or read book Introductory Papers on Dante written by Dorothy Leigh Sayers and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dorothy L. Sayers
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1597524921
Total Pages : 229 pages
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Download or read book Further Papers on Dante written by Dorothy L. Sayers and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing the Dante Papers Trilogy: Introductory Papers on Dante Further Papers on Dante The Poetry of Search and the Poetry of Statement Dr. Sayers' Further Papers on Dante will be warmly welcomed by all who read her Introductory Papers on Dante and by those hundreds more who want to know more about this astonishing poet newly disclosed to them by her vivid Penguin translation of the Inferno and the Purgatorio. The first series dealt mainly with the theological and ethical aspects of the Divine Comedy. The present one is more heterogeneous and pays more attention to the literary and poetic aspects of Dante's work. Here and there an attempt is made to rescue Dante from the exalted isolation in which he stands, and to compare with him other poets writing on similar themes. 'To label any poet hors concours is in a manner to excommunicate him.' This is not a work of popularization, but Dr. Sayers has in a high degree the ability to make things plain and readable for the general reader while at the same time revealing much that scholars may have overlooked.

Author : Dorothy Leigh Sayers
Publisher : London, Methuen
ISBN 13 : 9780064761376
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Further Papers on Dante written by Dorothy Leigh Sayers and published by London, Methuen. This book was released on 1957 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Hainsworth
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199684774
Total Pages : 145 pages
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Download or read book Dante written by Peter Hainsworth and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey take a different approach to Dante, by examining the main themes and issues that run through all of his work, ranging from autobiography, to understanding God and the order of the universe. In doing so, they highlight what has made Dante a vital point of reference for modern writers and readers, both inside and outside Italy. They emphasize the distinctive and dynamic interplay in Dante's writing between argument, ideas, and analysis on the one hand, and poetic imagination on the other. Dante was highly concerned with the political and intellectual issues of his time, demonstrated most powerfully in his notorious work,The Divine Comedy. Tracing the tension between the medieval and modern aspects, Hainsworth and Robey provide a clear insight into the meaning of this masterpiece of world literature. They highlight key figures and episodes in the poem, bringing out the originality and power of Dante's writing to help readers understand the problems that Dante wanted his audience to confront but often left up to the reader to resolve. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Dorothy L. Sayers
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ISBN 13 : 9780416572100
Total Pages : 225 pages
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Download or read book Introductory Papers on Dante written by Dorothy L. Sayers and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Addington Symonds
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Total Pages : 292 pages
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Download or read book An Introduction to the Study of Dante written by John Addington Symonds and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dorothy L. Sayers
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 159752493X
Total Pages : 291 pages
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Download or read book The Poetry of Search and the Poetry of Statement written by Dorothy L. Sayers and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing the Dante Papers Trilogy: Introductory Papers on Dante Further Papers on Dante The Poetry of Search and the Poetry of Statement The Poetry of Search, with which the book opens, puts forward the suggestion that controversy about what kind of thing poetry ought to be has tended to overlook the fact that there are two kinds of poetry, corresponding roughly to the categories of Romantic and Classical but which she prefers to describe as the Poetry of Search and the Poetry of Statement. The poet of search writes to find out what he feels--Keats is an example--and the poet of statement writes to tell what he knows--and here Dante is the master. Dante the Maker, which follows, discusses two examples of this method as poet of statement: First, how the whole of the Paradiso is built like a bridge between the first and the last terrains, and how roads from all the other parts of the poem run together to one point from which to pass over that bridge; secondly, how from a single unadorned statement in the seventh canto the reader who shares Dante's background may construct a whole labyrinth of associated imagery, turning and returning perpetually upon the central affirmation of fact in which a whole complex of meanings lies implicit.

Author : Adolphus Thomas Ennis
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Total Pages : 162 pages
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Download or read book Introduction to Dante's Inferno written by Adolphus Thomas Ennis and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: