{"product_id":"dante-and-augustine-linguistics-poetics-hermeneutics-paperback-softback-9781487526184","title":"Dante and Augustine; Linguistics, Poetics, Hermeneutics (Paperback \/ softback) 9781487526184","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDante and Augustine\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLinguistics, Poetics, Hermeneutics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSimone Marchesi (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487526184\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 7 August 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.39 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt several junctures in his career, Dante paused to consider what it meant to be a writer. The questions he posed were both simple and wide-ranging: How does language, in particular 'poetic language,' work? Can poetry be translated? What is the relationship between a text and its commentary? Who controls the meaning of a literary work? In \u003cem\u003eDante and Augustine\u003c\/em\u003e, Simone Marchesi re-examines these questions in light of the influence that Augustine's reflections on similar issues exerted on Dante's sense of his task as a poet.\u003cbr\u003e Examining Dante's life-long dialogue with Augustine from a new point of view, Marchesi goes beyond traditional inquiries to engage more technical questions relating to Dante's evolving ideas on how language, poetry, and interpretation should work. In this engaging literary analysis, Dante emerges as a versatile thinker, committed to a radical defence of poetry and yet always ready to rethink, revise, and rewrite his own positions on matters of linguistics, poetics, and hermeneutics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cem\u003ePreface\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003col\u003e \u003cli\u003eLinguistics\u003c\/li\u003e \u003col\u003e a. The nature of language and the common project of \u003cem\u003eConvivio\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDe vulgari eloquentia: enucleare aliis conceptum\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  b. The quest for a perfect language: Latin as grammar \u003cbr\u003e  c. An alternative model: Augustine again\u003cbr\u003e  d. \u003cem\u003eConcetto\u003c\/em\u003e: the redefinition of conceptual speech in the \u003cem\u003eCommedia\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  e. \u003cem\u003eConcetto\u003c\/em\u003e again: Dante's incarnational poetics in \u003cem\u003eParadiso\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cli\u003ePoetics\u003c\/li\u003e \u003col\u003e a. The making of poetry: \u003cem\u003everba\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003esentential\u003c\/em\u003e as \u003cem\u003ediscretive mixta\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  b. Meaning in poetry: the task of prose\u003cbr\u003e  c. \u003cem\u003eConvenientia\u003c\/em\u003e across secular and biblical writings\u003cbr\u003e  d. On translating meaning: biblical poetry and the sweetness of the Psalms \u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cli\u003eHermeneutics\u003c\/li\u003e \u003col\u003e a. The burden of interpretation: authorial intention in Dante's \"minor\" works\u003cbr\u003e  b. \u003cem\u003ePer te poeta fui, per te cristiano\u003c\/em\u003e: texts and authors framing Statius' Christianity\u003cbr\u003e  c. Reading beyond the author: two stumbling blocks in \u003cem\u003ePurgatorio \u003c\/em\u003eXXII\u003cbr\u003e  d. Augustine's \u003cem\u003eregula caritatis\u003c\/em\u003e and the interpretation of the \u003cem\u003eCommedia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  e. Augustine's hermeneutics and the poetics of the Spirit \u003c\/ol\u003e \u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWorks Cited\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52520939159832,"sku":"9781487526184","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/dante-and-augustine-linguistics-poetics-hermeneutics-paperback-softback-9781487526184","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}