Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy. Volume 3
Vertical Readings in Dante’s ‘Comedy’ is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from the three canticles: Inferno i, Purgatorio i and Paradiso i; Inferno ii, Purgatorio ii and Paradiso ii; etc. Although scholars have suggested before that there are correspondences between same-numbered cantos that beg to be explored, this is the first time that the approach has been pursued in a systematic fashion ac...
Éditeur : Open Book Publishers
Lieu d’édition : Cambridge
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 4 juillet 2018
ISBN numérique : 979-10-365-0970-4
Collection : OBP collection
Année d’édition : 2017
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-1-78374-358-2
Nombre de pages : xiv + 250
George Corbett et Heather Webb
IntroductionPeter S. Hawkins
23. Our Bodies, Our Selves: Crucified, Famished, and NourishedJanet Soskice
24. True Desire, True Being, and Truly Being a PoetGeorge Ferzoco
25. ChangesElena Lombardi
26. The Poetics of TrespassingRonald L. Martinez
27. Containers and Things ContainedTheodore J. Cachey Jr.
28. Cosmographic Cartography of the ‘Perfect’ Twenty-EightsPiero Boitani
30. Brooks, Melting Snow, River of LightCatherine Pickstock
31. Beauty and the BeastRowan Williams
33 and 34. Ice, Fire and Holy WaterVertical Readings in Dante’s ‘Comedy’ is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from the three canticles: Inferno i, Purgatorio i and Paradiso i; Inferno ii, Purgatorio ii and Paradiso ii; etc. Although scholars have suggested before that there are correspondences between same-numbered cantos that beg to be explored, this is the first time that the approach has been pursued in a systematic fashion across the poem.
This three-volume collection offers an unprecedented repertoire of vertical readings for the whole poem. Vertical reading not only articulates unexamined connections between the three canticles but also unlocks engaging new ways to enter into core concerns of the poem. The three volumes thereby provide an indispensable resource for scholars, students and enthusiasts of Dante.
George Corbett (dir.)
Lecturer in Theology, Imagination and the Arts in the School of Divinity, University of St Andrews. Prior to this, he was Junior Research Fellow of Trinity College and Affiliated Lecturer of the Department of Italian, University of Cambridge. He is the author of Dante and Epicurus: A Dualistic Vision of Secular and Spiritual Fulfilment (2013), and was the co-organiser, with Heather Webb, of the ‘Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy’ lecture series (2012–2016).
Heather Webb (dir.)
Reader in Medieval Italian Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Selwyn College. She is the author of The Medieval Heart (2010), Dante’s Persons: An Ethics of the Transhuman (2016), and articles on Dante, Catherine of Siena and others. She was co-organiser, with George Corbett, of the ‘Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy’ lecture series (2012–2016). She is co-editor, with Pierpaolo Antonello, of Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel: René Girard and Literary Criticism (2015).

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