Piero Boitani

The Tragic and the Sublime in Medieval Literature

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Professor Boitani's latest book explores the areas of the tragic and the sublime in medieval literature by asking what medieval texts mean to modern readers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 565g
• ISBN-13: 9780521131070
• ISBN-10: 0521131073
• Artikelnr.: 28516868

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Note on the Texts
1. 'The Old Man and the Earth': alterity and otherness of a medieval story
2. Two versions of tragedy: Ugolino and Hugelyn
3. 'O quike deth': love, melancholy, and the divided self
4. Sunset, flowers and leaves: tradition and tragic images
5. A spark of love: medieval recognitions
6. I know the signs of the ancient flame: Dante's recognitions
7. 'His desir wol fle withouten wynges': Mary and love in fourteenth-century poetry
8. The Sibyl's leaves: reading Paradiso XXXIII
9. 'L'acqua che ritorna equale': Dante's Sublime
Notes
Index.