Reading Dante's Stars - Rilegato

Cornish, Alison

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0300076797 ISBN 13: 9780300076790

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2000

Riassunto

This book makes a sustained analysis of Dante's use of astronomy, not only in terms of the precepts of medieval science but also in relation to specific moral, philosophical, and poetic problems laid out in each chapter.
For Dante, Alison Cornish says, the stars offer optical representations of invisible realities, from divine providence to the workings of the human soul. Dante's often puzzling celestial figures call attention to the physical world as a scene of reading in which visible phenomena are subject to more than one explanation, Cornish contends. The poetry of Dante's astronomy, as well as its difficulty, rests on this imperative of interpretation. Reading the stars, like reading literature is an ethical undertaking fraught with risk, not just an exercise in technical understanding. Cornish's book is the first guide to the astronomy of Dante's masterpiece to encompass both ways of reading his work.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Alison Cornish is assistant professor of Italian in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0300076797
• ISBN 13: 9780300076790
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 226