Dante: The Poetics of Conversion

by John Freccero

Book Overview

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 Dante, body and soul go together and there is no salvation that's purely intellectual, no poetry...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674192265
• ISBN13: 9780674192263
• Release Date: March 1988
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"