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Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity

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Description for Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity Paperback. The best and most eloquent introduction to Dante for our time. Num Pages: 352 pages, 34 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 139 x 27. Weight in Grams: 280.

Keenly aware that thousands of books have been written about The Divine Comedy, Prue Shaw—one of the world’s foremost Dante authorities–is convinced that an accessible, non-scholarly work that explicated Dante is needed. Just as Dante becomes a poet with a prophetic mission, Reading Dante becomes far more than an exegesis of Dante’s three-part Commedia. It offers a literary experience that lifts the reader into the universal realms of poetry and mythology, revealing how one can recover time-past through memory and language.

Whether challenging the notion that Dante was vindictive, decoding the numerology that can confound readers or positioning Dante’s tortured ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781631490064
SKU
V9781631490064
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99-15

About Prue Shaw
Prue Shaw is emeritus reader in Italian studies at University College London and the editor of the edizione nazionale of Dante’s Monarchia and of a digital edition of the Commedia. She lives in Cambridge, England.

Reviews for Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity
"Reading Dante is an experience of a lifetime... But, like Dante himself, at large in the frightening wood, you need a companion for the journey, and it is difficult to imagine one more enlightening than Prue Shaw."
The Spectator "Shaw’s sharp, brilliantly engaging book delivers masterfully on its promise to fuel love for the Comedy precisely by dispelling readers’ ... Read more

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