H. A. Kelly

Tragedy and Comedy from Dante to Pseudo-Dante (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

In this study, Professor Kelly analyzes Dante's understanding of the meanings of tragedy and comedy in his undisputed works, especially the 'De vulgari eloquentia' and the 'Comedia'. He finds that Dante's criteria concerned subject-matter and style, not emotions like happiness and sorrow, or plot movement from one mood to another, or humor or the lack of it. He considered Vergil's 'Aeneid' and his own lyric poems to be tragedies because of their sublime subjects and their use of elevated style and vocabulary. He considered the 'Inferno', along with the 'Purgatorio' and the 'Paradiso', to be a comedy because of the range of subjects and styles. Dante's commentators, in contrast, tended to have a plot-based understanding of these genres, and they attributed similar views to Dante himself. On the basis of both content and style, Kelly concludes that the 'Epistle to Cangrande' is not by Dante, except possibly for the first three paragraphs, and therefore ascribes it to Pseudo-Dante. It was not compiled as we have it until the last quarter of the fourteenth century, but it incorporated an earlier anonymous 'accessus' to the 'Comedia'. This 'accessus' drew heavily on Guido da Pisa's commentary, and it in turn was used by Boccaccio.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781725209602
• Artikelnr.: 60110595

Autorenporträt

Henry Ansgar Kelly trained in the classics and philosophy at St. Louis University (A.M., Ph.L, 1961) and in medieval and Renaissance literature at Harvard (Ph.D., 1965). He has taught at UCLA since 1967, and from 1998 to 2003 he served as Director of UCLA's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. He has published two other books on medieval tragedy: 'Ideas and Forms of Tragedy from Aristotle to the Middle Ages' (1993) and 'Chaucerian Tragedy' (1997).