...Joan Ross Acocella Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 THE CULT OF LANGUAGE A STUDY OF TWO MODERN TRANSLATIONS OF DANTE By JOAN Ross ACOCELLA It must be admitted that in general...

...Michael Murrin L. MONTGOMERY ROBERT. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1979. vii + 235 pp. $14.00. Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 REVIEWS The Reader’s Eye: Studies in Didactic Literary Theory from Dante...

...D. M. R. Bentley REES JOAN. Cambridge, London, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981. viii + 204 pp. $39.95. Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 398 REV I EMiS The Poetry of Dante Gubriei Rossetti: Modes...

...-are to be commended for having brought to our attention these selected writings on Dante by the great nineteenth-century Italian critic, Francesco De Sanctis. Readers of RenC Wellek’s History of Criticism will have particular cause for gratitude. The essays are prefaced by an introduction of some twenty...

...Charlegso Ggio Rutledge Gordon Silber, Menasha, Wisconsin: George Banta Publishing Co., 1940. Pp. 162. Copyright © 1940 by Duke University Press 1940 Charles Goggio 573 The Influence of Dante and Petrarch on Certain of Boccaccio’s Lyrics...

... Lindenb erger 285 Outline of Comparative Literature from Dante Alighieri to Eugene O’Neill. By WERNERP. FRIEDERICHwith the collaboration of DAVIDHENRY MALONE. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Studies in Comparative Literature, No. 11, 1954. Pp. xii 4...

.... PAULSCHACH University of Nebrmka Dante Alighieri: The Inferno. Translated in verse by JOHN CIARDI.Historical introduction by A. T. MACALLISTER.New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1954. Pp. xxvi + 288. $4.50. Also a paper-back edition: Mentor Books (Ms 113). $0.50...

..., and complexity of her indirection. Kahn’s eloquent and important book will reward the closest readings; it is the most intellec- tually engaging book I have seen in a long time. Judith H. Anderson, Indiana University The Circle of Our Vision: Dante’s Presence in English...

... University Press, 1974. xi + 83 pp. $4.95. David Thompson’s book argues, in brief, the thoroughgoing tracli tionality of Dante’s fiction and his allegory in relation to classical epic, specifically by relating Ulysses ancl Aeneas to the pilgrim of the Commedia. The case is pre- sented...

...Glauco Cambon Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 DANTE’S FRANCESCA AND THE TACTICS OF LANGUAGE By GLAUCOCAMBON Since writing this essay in its original form, I have read Renato Poggioli’s PMLA article1 which...

... in relation to his reading of Dante’s defense of the vernacular, a question that Pound works through by way of the counterintuitive process of translation, with the goal of defending American usage against the linguistic regulatory norms of England. Through recourse to a lexicon derived from the Scottish poet...

... revealed that the poem is written in the visionary/apocalyptic genre and that it is in part a response to the most prestigious texts we generally assign to the tradition of visionary writing. Dante’s influence, which has been...

... Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Press . Dante . 2010 . Dante’s Inferno , translated by Longfellow Henry Wadsworth . New York : Random House . Derrida Jacques . 1974 . Of Grammatology , translated by Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty . Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University...

...: “A literal Version of the Close of the 32d and Part of the 33d Canto of the Inferno of Dante.” Our present concern is entirely with this last fragment, which can most conveniently be reproduced at this point as the best approach to our discussion. It runs as follows : We had scarcely...

... with God and man. With regard to the fusion of belief and image, it seems significant that Milton should reject as much as he can of Dante’s scheme, replacing a cosmology of neat concentric circles and a hell fearsomely close beneath the earth’s crust with a radically different tradition...

... in Dante’s Paradiso.2 Pur., xxxiii. 16 La tua benigniti non pur soccorre 17 a chi domanda, ma molte fiate 18 liberarnente a1 dimandar precorre. 19 In te misericordia, in te pietate, 20 in te...

... of the more jejune influences of his Continental literary past. Never out of sight in the past century has been the investigation of Chaucer’s debt to the great Italian writers, particularly Dante. To what extent or in what pos- sible way is the House of Fame an imitation of the Divine Comedy...

... had intuited in the midst of his dejection? More likely it descended upon one suddenly, coming from outside and from beyond the self, as in the Vita nuoua, where a “lord of terrible aspect” brought Dante in tor Michael Yeats, are to the Curtis Bradford transcriptions, catalogued in James L...

... behavior” (p. 89);finally, that he grants Dante the status ofpoeta along with the ancients, and responds to the Commedia with the same kind of allusiveness. Wetherbee draws his evidence from Troilus and Criseyde, the poem in which Chaucer competes with the classics on their own terms, even as he...

... of knowledge in the vernacular intellectual programs of Brunetto Latini, Dante, and Gower. In the civic ideology of Brunetto’s Trhor and Dante’s Conwiwio, and in Gower’s adaptation of Brunetto’s work in the Confessio amantis, the role of rhetoric is transformed and elevated through a wholesale...