Dante and Difference: Writing in the 'Commedia'

(Book #2 in the Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series)

by Jeremy Tambling

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This book presents an interesting approach to Dante's Divine Comedy, drawing on medieval theories of reading and understanding a text, and comparing them with modern critical theories of hermeneutics and approaches to the text associated with the work of Derrida. Dr Tambling rejects any attempt to identify a fundamental unity of thought in the poem and stresses the importance of opposition and divergence. This leads him to react against reductively...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521044626

ISBN13:9780521044622

Release Date:December 2007

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:220 Pages

Weight:0.72 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Literary Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction Poetry

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