Essays
Scholarly anthology of ten essays placing Dante’s Divine Comedy in context for modern readers of English and Italian literature.
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Scholarly anthology of ten essays placing Dante’s Divine Comedy in context for modern readers of English and Italian literature.
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Dante's work has fascinated readers for seven hundred years and has provided key reference points for writing as diverse as that of Chaucer, the Renaissance poets, the English Romantics, Tennyson and the Pre-Raphaelites, American writers from Melville through to Eliot and Pound, Anglo-Irish Modernists from Joyce to Beckett, and contemporary poets such as Heaney and Walcott. In this volume, Jeremy Tambling has selected ten recent essays from the mass of Dante studies, and put the Divine Comedy - ...
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Academic discussion of Dante’s treatment of love and sexuality
Violence & gore
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Critical analysis of Inferno’s violent punishments and suffering
Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Theological focus on Christian Hell, Purgatory, Paradise, and allegory
Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic present
Occult / demonology
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Academic treatment of demons and damnation in Dante’s Inferno
Political content
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Essays on Dante’s politics, Florence, and contemporary Italy
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Analysis of cruelty, torment, and suffering in Inferno
Other
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