Dante's two beloveds
ethics and erotics in the Divine comedy
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Author
Publication
2008 - Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut
Language
English
Word Count
68,500 words, Guess
Page Count
274 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139780300125429
- ISBN-100300125429
- Goodreads3348442
- Library of Congress Control Number2008013919
- OCLC Control Number214323014
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780300125429
- Open LibraryOL16728708M
Classifications
- DDC851/.1
- LCCPQ4414 .H656 2008
- LCCPQ4414.H656 2008
Description
"Reexamining key passages in Dante's oeuvre in the light of the crucial issue of moral choice, this book provides a new thematic framework for interpreting the Divine Comedy. Olivia Holmes shows how Dante articulated the relationship between the human and the divine as an erotic choice between two attractive women - Beatrice and the "other woman."" "Investigating the traditions and archetypes that contributed to the formation of Dante's two beloveds, Holmes shows how Dante brilliantly overlaid and combined these paradigms in his poem. In doing so he reimagined the two women as not merely oppositional condensations of apparently conflicting cultural traditions but also complementary versions of the same." "This insight sheds new light on Dante's corpus and on the essential paradox at the poem's heart: the unabashed eroticism of Dante's turn away from the earthly in favor of the divine."--BOOK JACKET.
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