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Ultimate Dante Alighieri Book Lot Understanding Dante, Inferno, La Vita Nuova
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- Book Title
- Understanding Dante
- Features
- Ex-Library
- ISBN
- 9780268044510
- Book Series
- William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature Ser.
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, History
- Topic
- Medieval, Europe / Medieval, European / Italian
- Item Weight
- 24.7 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.2 in
- Number of Pages
- 500 Pages
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"In Understanding Dante , Scott goes beyond simply explaining Dante's works and provides a detailed discussion of the medieval poet's writings. John A. Scott has given readers a comprehensive account of Dante's work that will be useful to new readers and Dante scholars alike. It contains a helpful chronology of the events in the poet's life and a short glossary of poetic forms." -- Magill Book Reviews
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University of Notre Dame Press
ISBN-10
0268044511
ISBN-13
9780268044510
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2837870
Product Key Features
Book Title
Understanding Dante
Number of Pages
500 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2004
Topic
Medieval, Europe / Medieval, European / Italian
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, History
Type
Textbook
Book Series
William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
24.7 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"John Scott's book gives English-speaking readers the richest and clearest account in any language of Dante's entire oeuvre. . . ." -- Times Literary Supplement, ". . . very good, almost ideal. . . . Scott's genial good sense is reflected in every detail of his text. . . . [E]very page bursts with insights and brief accounts of disputed interpretations without ever feeling forced." -- Commonweal, ". . . No one has done for Homer what John A. Scott has now done for Dante in Understanding Dante . An Australian scholar, Scott is one of the world's leading Dantisti. In this summa of his career he has written a commanding, elegant overview of Dante's works, analyzing his historical context; his political, moral, and religious ideas; the structure and texture of his writing; and the state of Dante scholarship. Scott has accomplished the nearly impossible: he has married close interpretation with broad synthesis--and in clear, often vigorous prose. This is a significant and deeply satisfying book." , "An Australian scholar, Scott is one of the world's leading Dantisti. In this summa of his career he has written a commanding, elegant overview of Dante's works, analyzing his historical context; his political, moral, and religious ideas; the structure and texture of his writing; and the state of Dante scholarship. Scott has accomplished the nearly impossible: he has married close interpretation with broad synthesis--and in clear, often vigorous prose. This is a significant and deeply satisfying book." -- The Atlantic Monthly, "Scott, a leading Dante scholar, has written a useful, comprehensive book that will appeal to a broad audience. . . . Genuinely impressive for the amount of information it provides and for its sensitive analysis of Dante's writings, this book is obviously the distillation of decades of dedicated study and teaching by one of the giants of world literature. The concise, lucid, and elegant prose does justice to its subject and makes it a book that will enrich any library and any reader. Essential." , "Wonderfully detailed and comprehensive, equally attentive to the power of Dante's thinking and the texture of his writing, this book will be an invaluable resource for both beginning and more experienced readers of Dante's works." --Steven Botterill, University of California, Berkeley, "Scott, a leading Dante scholar, has written a useful, comprehensive book that will appeal to a broad audience. . . . Genuinely impressive for the amount of information it provides and for its sensitive analysis of Dante's writings, this book is obviously the distillation of decades of dedicated study and teaching [of] one of the giants of world literature. . . . Essential. " -- Choice , "John Scott's Understanding Dante is a significant contribution to the study and teachings of Dante. In eleven chapters Scott has succeeded in providing a relatively succinct overview of Dante's life, world, and work. . . . Although several influential collections of essays on Dante's work have been published in English in the last decades, most importantly in this context the Cambridge Companion to Dante none of these comes close to the comprehensiveness of Understanding Dante . Scott provides the essential background and orientation for the nonspecialist to teach and write about Dante. The book will be especially helpful for teaching Dante in translation in 'great book' or 'world civilization' courses. At the same time, it could also serve as an ideal textbook for courses dealing in more depth with Dante." -- Modern Philology, "Scott's genial good sense is reflected in every detail of his text. . . . [E]very page bursts with insights and brief accounts of disputed interpretations without ever feeling forced." -- Commonweal, " Understanding Dante should quickly become an indispensable work for Dante students and scholars. In an elegantly balanced way, it presents an impressive body of information about Dante and his works, critical debates around them, and the author's own sensitive, learned, and sensible readings." --Joan M. Ferrante, Columbia University, " . . . an always intelligent and eloquent guide to the works of the prince of poets. The book is organized chronologically, beginning with Dante's early La Vita Nuova and ending with a discussion of his late eclogues and philosophical disquisitions; about 150 pages are devoted to La Commedia alone." -- Faith and Reason, "Scott explains the fundamental ideas we need to comprehend in order to read all of Dante's works, from the poet's fundamental choice between writing in Latin or the vernacular, to his complex and probably varying conception of allegory. Scott's account of these ideas serves as an excellent general introduction to the poet; but it also conveys and renders accessible many of the major scholarly debates about Dante. . . . [His] book gives English-speaking readers the richest and clearest account in any language of Dante's entire oeuvre." --Times Literary Supplement, " Understanding Dante goes a long way to help bridge this gap between the so-called minor works and the Comedy , and will become a standard handbook in any language and literature department teaching Dante. . . There is no book quite like this in English: it is part introduction, part critical review, and part close reading, and the overall result is a very readable and stimulating survey of Dante's opera omnia ." -- Sixteenth Century Journal, "John A. Scott, one of the most distinguished English-speaking Dantists now working, offers in his magisterial Understanding Dante a complete survey of Dante's works that handily supersedes other recent introductions to the poet. . . This volume will without any question establish itself as the indispensable vade mecum for students whether beginning or advanced." -- Speculum, "This is the summa of a lifetime's work on Dante by one of the leading Dantisti in the English-speaking world. Written in perfectly lucid, often vigorous prose, it is a nearly perfect assessment of the status quaestionis in Dante studies." --Piero Boitani, University of Rome, "La Sapienza", "For the reader looking for an all-purpose guide that takes account of just about everything, John A. Scott's magisterial Understanding Dante is the clear choice. . . . What he has produced is a one-volume handbook that may be helpful to someone trying to 'understand Dante' for the first time-a college student, for instance, or the 'general educated reader' we all still hope is out there-but even more useful to the advanced reader or even the Dante professional" -- Christianity and Literature, " Understanding Dante should quickly become an indispensable work for Dante students and scholars. In an elegantly balanced way, it presents an impressive body of information about Dante and his works, critical debates around them, and the author's own sensitive, learned, and sensible readings. " -- Joan M. Ferrante, Columbia University, "This book introduces the beginner to Dante's opera omnia , without disregarding aspects that may interest the more experienced reader. . . Scott successfully encapsulates in one important work all the research a beginner needs to undertake in order to understand Dante the author, his problematic life, and how this is reflected in his writings. Rarely has a comprehensive study shown how the man's own experience and his work are inextricably intertwined in such an accessible way." -- MLR, "Scott explains the fundamental ideas we need to comprehend in order to read all of Dante's works, from the poet's fundamental choice between writing in Latin or the vernacular, to his complex and probably varying conception of allegory. Scott's account of these ideas serves as an excellent general introduction to the poet; but it also conveys and renders accessible many of the major scholarly debates about Dante. . . . [His] book gives English-speaking readers the richest and clearest account in any language of Dante's entire oeuvre. . . ." , "Scott, a leading Dante scholar, has written a useful, comprehensive book that will appeal to a broad audience. . . . Genuinely impressive for the amount of information it provides and for its sensitive analysis of Dante's writings, this book is obviously the distillation of decades of dedicated study and teaching [of] one of the giants of world literature. . . . Essential." -- Choice, ". . . a most useful, enjoyable, and accomplished resource in Dante studies, and should be found on the shelves not just of every Dante student, or novice seeking a scholarly introduction to the writer, but also of those with a more general interest in medieval literature." -- Medium Ævum
Lccn
2003-050728
Series Volume Number
Vol. 6
Dewey Decimal
851/.1
Lc Classification Number
Pq4390.S464 2003
Copyright Date
2004
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