BOOKS by John Freccero

Dante: The Poetics of Conversion more books like this

by John Freccero, Rachel Jacoff (Illustrator)

John Freccero enables us to see the "Divine Comedy" for the bold, poetic experiment that it is. Too many critics have domesticated Dante by separating his theology from his poetics. Freccero argues that to fail to see the convergence of the letter and the spirit, the pilgrim and the poet, is to fail to understand Dante's poetics of conversion. For ...

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The Divine Comedy: Volume 3: The Paradiso more books like this

by Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi (Translator), John Freccero (Adapted by)

Dante's masterpiece of medieval literature contains many levels of meaning, including the literal (Dante's trip through hell, purgatory, and paradise); the allegorical (the progression of the soul toward goodness); and the moral (what it takes to lead a good life). Dante's great love, Beatrice, is seen in the poem as the personification of love ...

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Sparks and Seeds:: Medieval Literature and Its Afterlife. Essays in Honor of John Freccero more books like this

by John Freccero, D E Stewart (Editor)

John Freccero is internationally renowned for his scholarship on Dante, Petrarch, Macchiavelli, and other authors. All the authors in this Festschrift are former students of Freccero. All the articles appertain to Italian literature - from Dennis Costa's literary analysis of Bonaventure's Itinerarium to Patricia Parker's tracing of the State of ...

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Dante; a collection of critical essays. more books like this

by John Freccero (Editor)

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