Dante and Polish Writers: From Romanticism to the Present

Dante and Polish Writers: From Romanticism to the Present explores the phenomenon of Polish Danteism from a hermeneutic perspective. The chapters shed light on a series of "encounters" of eminent Polish writers with Dante and the Divine Comedy, resulting in original interpretations, creative reworkings, and a wealth of intertextual references testifying to a dialogue that has always been - and still is - alive, not excluding antagonism and bitter controversy. The contributors are all scholars of Polish literature with comparative expertise, teaching in Italian and Polish universities, which ensures a consistently focused point of view on the receptive context and the ways in which it is affected by the confrontation with Dante. The hermeneutic horizon ranges from the Inferno-like reading of the inhuman lands with which history abounds, to the metaphysical yearning underlying Dante's "poetics of transhumanizing," to recent perspectives related to the posthuman and storytelling.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032365625
• ISBN13: 9781032365626
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"