The Metaphysics of Dante's Comedy. By Christian Moevs
Given the recent tendency in Dante scholarship towards synthesis and popularization (Bemrose, Hollander, Scott, Reynolds), it is good to come across a volume intended instead to deepen the argument in the Commedia and to confirm it in its special kind of sublimity. This the American Dante scholar Ch...
| Published in: | The journal of theological studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2007
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 58, Issue: 2, Pages: 747-749 |
| Review of: | The metaphysics of Dante's Comedy (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 2005) (Took, John)
The metaphysics of Dante's Comedy (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 2005) (Took, John) |
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| Summary: | Given the recent tendency in Dante scholarship towards synthesis and popularization (Bemrose, Hollander, Scott, Reynolds), it is good to come across a volume intended instead to deepen the argument in the Commedia and to confirm it in its special kind of sublimity. This the American Dante scholar Christian Moevs does with attention both to the text itself and to the wealth of secondary literature bearing on it, his notes, bibliography, and index—occupying a good third of the whole—bearing witness to his diligence in this respect. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flm060 |