| Dante: Poet of the Secular World Contributor(s): Auerbach, Erich (Author), Manheim, Ralph (Translator), Dirda, Michael (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1590172191 ISBN-13: 9781590172193 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2007 Annotation: Erich Auerbach' s "Dante: Poet of the Secular World" is an inspiring introduction to one of world' s greatest poets as well as a brilliantly argued and still provocative essay in the history of ideas. Here Auerbach, thought by many to be the greatest of twentieth-century scholar-critics, makes the seemingly paradoxical claim that it is in the poetry of Dante, supreme among religious poets, and above all in the stanzas of his "Divine Comedy," that the secular world of the modern novel fi rst took imaginative form. Auerbach' s study of Dante, a precursor and necessary complement to "Mimesis," his magisterial overview of realism in Western literature, illuminates both the overall structure and the individual detail of Dante' s work, showing it to be an extraordinary synthesis of the sensuous and the conceptual, the particular and the universal, that redefi ned notions of human character and fate and opened the way into modernity. CONTENTS I. Historical Introduction; The Idea of Man in Literature II. Dante's Early Poetry III. The Subject of the " Comedy" IV. The Structure of the " Comedy" V. The Presentation VI. The Survival and Transformation of Dante's Vision of Reality Notes Index |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Criticism | Medieval - Literary Criticism | European - Italian |
| Dewey: 851.1 |
| LCCN: 2006034769 |
| Series: New York Review Books (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.03" W x 7.99" (0.50 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Cultural Region - Italy |
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| Publisher Description: Erich Auerbach's Dante: Poet of the Secular World is an inspiring introduction to one of world's greatest poets as well as a brilliantly argued and still provocative essay in the history of ideas. Here Auerbach, thought by many to be the greatest of twentieth-century scholar-critics, makes the seemingly paradoxical claim that it is in the poetry of Dante, supreme among religious poets, and above all in the stanzas of his Divine Comedy, that the secular world of the modern novel first took imaginative form. Auerbach's study of Dante, a precursor and necessary complement to Mimesis, his magisterial overview of realism in Western literature, illuminates both the overall structure and the individual detail of Dante's work, showing it to be an extraordinary synthesis of the sensuous and the conceptual, the particular and the universal, that redefined notions of human character and fate and opened the way into modernity. CONTENTS I. Historical Introduction; The Idea of Man in Literature II. Dante's Early Poetry III. The Subject of the "Comedy" IV. The Structure of the "Comedy" V. The Presentation VI. The Survival and Transformation of Dante's Vision of Reality Notes Index |