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  title info:
    title: Why Dante matters
    sub title: an intelligent person's guide
  name:
    name part: Took, J. F.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 207 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Dante is the poet that everyone knows of yet also knows little about. And yet he was probably the most important and powerful poet that the Western world has ever produced. There are many translations of his work in English, but of Dante himself, most people only know about his love object Beatrice, that he was exiled from Florence and that he wrote The Divine Comedy, but maybe little else. In his Intelligent Person's Guide, Professor John Took introduces the reader to the principle themes of Dante's work, the polarities of existence, time and eternity, freedom and destiny, individuality and existence, the multiplicity of human loving. It is by self-confrontation and self-transcendence that we come to understand our human journey through hell, purgatory and on to paradise. These ostensibly somewhat complex ideas are here explained by John Took with pellucid clarity. In the course of this book we are caught up by the imaginative excitement in this study of a poetic genius which we cannot fail to be drawn into ourselves, and to find infectious.
  table of contents: Dante and the existential point of view -- Dante at the point of ultimate concern -- Dante: Who, what, where and when? -- Course of the argument -- Dante, self and selfhood -- The Vita Nova -- The convivio -- The commedia -- The power of the word: Issues in the area of language and literature -- Conclusion: In conversation with Dante.
  note: John Took.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-204) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Dante Alighieri
      name part: 1265-1321
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  classification: PQ4335 .T66 2020
  classification: 851/.1
  identifier: 1472951034
  identifier: 9781472951038
  identifier: 9781472951045 (ePub ebook)
  identifier: 9781472951052 (PDF ebook)
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 191101
    record change date: 20211018100913.0
    record identifier: in00004395304