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Poetry in dialogue in the Duecento and Dante /

"Poetry in Dialogue in the Duecento and Dante provides a new perspective on the highly networked literary landscape of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italy. It demonstrates the fundamental role of dialogue between and within texts in the works of four poets who represent some of the major d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bowe, David, 1986- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford modern languages and literature monographs.
Subjects:
Dante Alighieri, > 1265-1321 > Criticism and interpretation.
Guittone, > d'Arezzo, > -1294 > Criticism and interpretation.
Guittone, > d'Arezzo, > -1294
Dante Alighieri, > 1265-1321
Italian poetry > To 1400 > History and criticism.
Dialogue in literature.
Italy > Civilization.
Dialogism (Literary analysis)
Poésie italienne > Jusqu'à 1400 > Histoire et critique.
Dialogue dans la littérature.
Italie > Civilisation.
Dialogisme.
LITERARY CRITICISM.
Medieval.
Poetry.
Dialogue in literature
Italian poetry
Civilization
Italy
To 1400
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Poetry in Dialogue in the Duecento and Dante
  • Copyright
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations and Editions
  • Introduction
  • The mode of the tenzone
  • Dialogue and dialogism
  • Performance and dialogue
  • THE DUECENTO
  • 1: Guittone d'Arezzo: Dialogic Conversion
  • I. Now and then: performing a conversion
  • II. Why so serious? (Frate) Guittone's (in)sincerity
  • III. 'Vero amore', 'vera canzone'
  • 2: Guido Guinizzelli: Dialogic reorientation
  • I. Guinizzelli and the voice of God
  • II. Guinizzelli vs the critics
  • III. Biblically speaking
  • 3: Guido Cavalcanti: Dialogic Subjectivity
  • I. Cavalcanti vs Guittone
  • II. To Guinizzelli, on love
  • III. 'Donna me prega, perch'eo voglio dire': a doctrinal dialogue
  • IV. Performing a polyphonic identity
  • DANTE
  • 4: Dante in dialogue
  • Part 1-Dialogic Dismissal: The Two Guidos and the erasure of Guittone
  • I. Vita nova: from 'paura che è nel cor' to 'Amor e 'l cor gentil'
  • II. Purgatorio: Guido, Guido, Guittone
  • Part 2-Dialogic Disassociation: Cavalcanti at Sea?
  • I. Cavalcanti recalled
  • II. Dialogic dreams: Cavalcanti discounted
  • III. Cavalcanti's 'pasturella' in Dante's dreams of authority
  • 5: Ars Legendi, Ars Poetica: The Siren and the Poet
  • I. Vita nova di nuovo
  • II. Recalling Inferno, revisiting Convivio
  • III. Poesis and exegesis from the Convivio to the Commedia
  • Conclusion: Subjectivity, Dialogue, Openness
  • Bibliography
  • Primary Texts
  • Reference Works
  • Index