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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Dante's persons
    sub title: an ethics of the transhuman
  name:
    name part: Webb, Heather
    name part: 1976-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2016
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  abstract: "Explores the concept of personhood as it appears in Dante's Commedia and seeks out the constituent ethical modes that the poem presents as necessary for attaining a fullness of persona. The study suggests that Dante presents a vision of 'transhuman' potentiality in which the human person is, after death, fully integrated into co-presence with other individuals in a network of relations based on mutual recognition and interpersonal attention. The Commedia, Heather Webb argues, aims to depict and to actively construct a transmortal community in which the plenitude of each individual's person is realized in and through recognition of the personhood of other individuals who constitute that community, whether living or dead. Webb focuses on the strategies the Commedia employs to call us to collaborate in the mutual construction of persons. As we engage with the dead that inhabit its pages, we continue to maintain the personhood of those dead. Webb investigates Dante's implicit and explicit appeals to his readers to act in relation to the characters in his otherworlds as if they were persons. Moving through the various encounters of Purgatorio and Paradiso, this study documents the ways in which characters are presented as persone in development or in a state of plenitude through attention to the 'corporeal' modes of smiles, gazes, gestures, and postures. Dante's journey provides a model for the formation and maintenance of a network of personal attachments, attachments that, as constitutive of persona, are not superseded even in the presence of the direct vision of God"--Book jacket.
  note: Heather Webb.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-220) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Dante Alighieri
      name part: 1265-1321
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Divina commedia (Dante Alighieri)
  subject:
    topic: Self in literature
  subject:
    topic: Future life in literature
  subject:
    topic: Persona (Literature)
  subject:
    topic: Future life in literature
  subject:
    topic: Persona (Literature)
  subject:
    topic: Self in literature
  classification: PQ4432.S44 W43 2016
  classification: 440
  identifier: 9780198733485
  identifier: 0198733488
  identifier: 2015956028
  record info:
    record content source: ERASA
    record creation date: 151113
    record change date: 20170927095942.0
    record identifier: in00003724025
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng