Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture.

In this book, Teodolinda Barolini explores the sources of Italian literary culture in the figures of its lyric poets and its?three crowns?: Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. Barolini views the origins of Italian literary culture through four prisms: the ideological/philosophical, the intertextual/mult...

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Main Author: Barolini, Teodolinda
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bronx : Fordham University Press, 2006
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction Reading Against the Grain: Musings of an Italianist, from the Astral to the Artisanal; I.A PHILOSOPHY OF DESIRE; II. CHRISTIAN AND PAGAN INTERTEXTS; III. ORDERING THE MACROTEXT: TIME AND NARRATIVE; IV. GENDER; Notes; Index.