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Dante, the pilgrim, is the image of an author who stubbornly looks ahead, seeking and building the „Great Beyond“ (Manguel). Following in his footsteps is therefore not a return to the past, going à rebours , but a commitment to the future, to exploring the potential of humanity to „transhumanise“. This dynamic of self-transcendence in Dante’s humanism (Ossola), which claims for European civilisation a vocation for universalism (Ferroni), is analysed in the volume at three crucial moments: Firstly, the establishment of an emancipatory relationship between author and reader (Ascoli), in which authorship is authority and not power; secondly, the conception of vision as a learning process and horizon of eschatological overcoming (Mendonça); finally, the relationship with the past, which is never purely monumental, but ethically and intertextually dynamic, in an original rewriting of the original scriptural, medieval, and classical culture (Nasti, Bolzoni, Bartolomei). A second group of contributions is dedicated to the reconstruction of Dante’s presence in Portuguese literature (Almeida, Espírito Santo, Figueiredo, Marnoto, Vaz de Carvalho): they attest to the innovative impact of Dante’s work even in literary traditions more distant from it.
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In the footsteps of Dante, Teresa Bartolomei
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- Titel
- In the footsteps of Dante
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Teresa Bartolomei
- Verlag
- De Gruyter
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2023
- Einband
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 3110795949
- ISBN13
- 9783110795943
- Reihe
- Mimesis
- Kategorie
- Lyrik
- Beschreibung
- Dante, the pilgrim, is the image of an author who stubbornly looks ahead, seeking and building the „Great Beyond“ (Manguel). Following in his footsteps is therefore not a return to the past, going à rebours , but a commitment to the future, to exploring the potential of humanity to „transhumanise“. This dynamic of self-transcendence in Dante’s humanism (Ossola), which claims for European civilisation a vocation for universalism (Ferroni), is analysed in the volume at three crucial moments: Firstly, the establishment of an emancipatory relationship between author and reader (Ascoli), in which authorship is authority and not power; secondly, the conception of vision as a learning process and horizon of eschatological overcoming (Mendonça); finally, the relationship with the past, which is never purely monumental, but ethically and intertextually dynamic, in an original rewriting of the original scriptural, medieval, and classical culture (Nasti, Bolzoni, Bartolomei). A second group of contributions is dedicated to the reconstruction of Dante’s presence in Portuguese literature (Almeida, Espírito Santo, Figueiredo, Marnoto, Vaz de Carvalho): they attest to the innovative impact of Dante’s work even in literary traditions more distant from it.