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The Oxford Handbook of Dante contains forty-four specially written chapters that provide a thorough and creative reading of Dante's oeuvre. It gathers an intergenerational and international team of scholars encompassing diverse approaches from the fields of Anglo-American, Italian, and continental scholarship and spanning several disciplines: philology, material culture, history, religion, art history, visual studies, theory from the classical to the contemporary, queer, post- and de-colonial, and feminist studies. The volume combines a rigorous reassessment of Dante's formation, themes, and sources, with a theoretically up-to-date focus on textuality, thereby offering a new critical Dante. The volume is divided into seven sections: 'Texts and Textuality'; 'Dialogues'; 'Transforming Knowledge'; Space(s) and Places'; 'A Passionate Selfhood'; 'A Non-linear Dante'; and 'Nachleben'. It seeks to challenge the Commedia-centric approach (the conviction that notwithstanding its many contradictions, Dante's works move towards the great reservoir of poetry and ideas that is the Commedia), in order to bring to light a non-teleological way in which these works relate amongst themselves. Plurality and the openness of interpretation appear as Dante's very mark, coexisting with the attempt to create an all-encompassing mastership. The Handbook suggests what is exciting about Dante now and indicates where Dante scholarship is going, or can go, in a global context.
Introduction. Dante Unbound: A Vulnerable Life and the Openness of Interpretation, Manuele Gragnolati, Elena Lombardi, and Francesca Southerden
Part I: Texts and Textuality
1:The author, Justin Steinberg
2:Memory, Lina Bolzoni
3:Reading, Mary Carruthers
4:Materiality of the text and manuscript culture, Martin Eisner
5:The manuscript tradition, or on editing Dante, Fabio Zinelli
6:Commentary (both by Dante and on Dante), Luca Fiorentini
7:Digital Dante, Akash Kumar
Part II: Dialogues
8:The Classics, Zygmunt G. Baranski
9:Roman de la Rose, Antonio Montefusco
10:Troubadours, William Burgwinkle
11:Early Italian lyric, Roberto Rea
12:Comic culture, Fabian Alfie
13:Visual culture, Gervase Rosser
Part III: Transforming Knowledge
14:Encyclopaedism, Franziska Meier
15:Medicine, Natascia Tonelli
16:Visual theory, Simon Gilson
17:The law, Diego Quaglioni
18:Politics, Tristan Kay
19:Philosophy and theology, Pasquale Porro
20:Religion, Alessandro Vettori
21:Poetry, Elena Lombardi
Part IV: Space(s) and places
22:Florence and Rome, Giuliano Milani
23:Civitas/Community, Elisa Brilli
24:The Mediterranean, Karla Mallette
25:The East, Brenda Deen Schildgen
26:Exile, Johannes Bartuschat
27:Travelling/wandering/mapping, Theodore J. Cachey, Jr.
28:Dante's other worlds, Peter Hawkins
Part V: A passionate selfhood
29:Eschatological anthropology, Manuele Gragnolati
30:Language, Heather Webb
31:The mystical, Bernard McGinn
32:Bodies on fire, Cary Howie
Part VI: A non-linear Dante
33:The master narrative and its paradoxes, Nicolò Crisafi
34:Conversion, palinody, traces, Jennifer Rushworth
35:The lyric mode, Francesca Southerden
36:Errancy: A brief history of Dante's Ferm Voler, Teodolinda Barolini
Part VII: Nachleben
37:Translations, Martin McLaughlin
38:Dante and the performing arts, Rossend Arqués Corominas
39:Dante on screen, John David Rhodes
40:Modernist Dante, Daniela Caselli
41:Dante and the Shoah, Lino Pertile
42:Dante in Caribbean poetics: Language, power, race, Jason Allen-Paisant
43:Queering Dante, Gary Cestaro
44:A decolonial feminist Dante: Imperial historiography and gender, Marguerite Waller
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The Oxford Handbook of Dante contains forty-four specially written chapters that provide a thorough and creative reading of Dante's oeuvre. It gathers an intergenerational and international team of scholars encompassing diverse approaches from the fields of Anglo-American, Italian, and continental scholarship and spanning several disciplines: philology, material culture, history, religion, art history, visual studies, theory from the classical to the contemporary, queer, post- and de-colonial, and feminist studies. The volume combines a rigorous reassessment of Dante's formation, themes, and sources, with a theoretically up-to-date focus on textuality, thereby offering a new critical Dante. The volume is divided into seven sections: 'Texts and Textuality'; 'Dialogues'; 'Transforming Knowledge'; Space(s) and Places'; 'A Passionate Selfhood'; 'A Non-linear Dante'; and 'Nachleben'. It seeks to challenge the Commedia-centric approach (the conviction that notwithstanding its many contradictions, Dante's works move towards the great reservoir of poetry and ideas that is the Commedia), in order to bring to light a non-teleological way in which these works relate amongst themselves. Plurality and the openness of interpretation appear as Dante's very mark, coexisting with the attempt to create an all-encompassing mastership. The Handbook suggests what is exciting about Dante now and indicates where Dante scholarship is going, or can go, in a global context.