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Dante´s Inferno
Jean-Luc Champerret
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Description for Dante´s Inferno
Paperback. Following his irreverent, inspired Oulipean reworking of Shakespeare's Sonnets, in his new book Philip Terry takes on Dante's Inferno, shifting the action from the twelfth to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries - and relocating it to the modern 'walled city' of the University of Essex. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 219 x 13. Weight in Grams: 218.
Following his irreverent Oulipian reworking of Shakespeare's Sonnets, in his new book Philip Terry takes on Dante's Inferno, shifting the action from the twelfth century to the present day and relocating it to the modern 'walled city' of the University of Essex. Dante's Phlegethon becomes the river Colne; his popes are replaced by vice-chancellors and education ministers; the warring Guelfs and Ghibellines are re-imagined as the sectarians of Belfast, Terry's home city. Meanwhile, the guiding figure of Virgil takes on new form as Ted Berrigan, one-time visiting professor at Essex and a poet who had himself imagined the underworld: 'I ... Read more
Following his irreverent Oulipian reworking of Shakespeare's Sonnets, in his new book Philip Terry takes on Dante's Inferno, shifting the action from the twelfth century to the present day and relocating it to the modern 'walled city' of the University of Essex. Dante's Phlegethon becomes the river Colne; his popes are replaced by vice-chancellors and education ministers; the warring Guelfs and Ghibellines are re-imagined as the sectarians of Belfast, Terry's home city. Meanwhile, the guiding figure of Virgil takes on new form as Ted Berrigan, one-time visiting professor at Essex and a poet who had himself imagined the underworld: 'I ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847772206
SKU
V9781847772206
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99-9
About Jean-Luc Champerret
Philip Terry was born in Belfast in 1962. He has taught at the universities of Caen, Plymouth and Essex, where he is currently Director of Creative Writing. His fiction, poetry and translations have been widely published in journals in Britain and America. His books include the celebrated anthology of short stories Ovid Metamorphosed (2000), Fables of Aesop (2006) and the ... Read more
Reviews for Dante´s Inferno
'The lineation speeds along at a nice articulated pace, the Dantesque pitch is right and propulsive, the cast of villains is energising, the balance between language and lingo, the allusive and the obscene just right... Berrigan the perfect shambling guide...'
Seamus Heaney 'It is brilliant... the pattern and rhythm very forceful and the lingo just stunning.'
Marina Warner
Seamus Heaney 'It is brilliant... the pattern and rhythm very forceful and the lingo just stunning.'
Marina Warner