Dante's Vita Nuova and the New Testament
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Dante's Vita Nuova and the New Testament

Hermeneutics and the Poetics of Revelation

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Dante's Vita Nuova and the New Testament

Hermeneutics and the Poetics of Revelation

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Modelling knowledge as revelation and theology as poetry, this powerful new reading of the Vita nuova not only challenges Dante scholars to reconsider the book's speculative emphases but also offers the general reader an accessible yet penetrating exploration of some of the Western tradition's most far-reaching ideas surrounding love and knowledge. Dante's 'little book', included in full here in an original parallel translation, captures in its first emergence the same revolutionary ferment that would later become manifest both in the larger oeuvre of this great European writer and in the literature of the entire Western canon. William Franke demonstrates how Dante's youthful poetic autobiography disrupts sectarian thinking and reconciles the seeming contraries of divine revelation and human invention, while also providing the means for understanding religious revelation in the Bible. Ultimately, this revolutionary unification of Scripture and poetry shows the intimate working of love at the source of inspired knowing.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9781009033671
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
European Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Prologue
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Note on Text and Translation
  10. Chapter 1 Introduction: The Vita nuova as Theological Revelation through Lyrical Interpretation
  11. Chapter 2 The New Testament Model of Salvific Reminiscence
  12. Chapter 3 From Appearing and Imagining to Revealing through Interpreting: The Vita nuova’s Hermeneutics of Witness
  13. Chapter 4 Phenomenology versus Hermeneutics (Debate with Harrison): Revelation as Mediation
  14. Chapter 5 History of Effect and a New Hermeneutics-Oriented Critical Paradigm
  15. Chapter 6 Conclusion: The Existential Grounding of Revelation in Lyric
  16. Coda
  17. Epilogue: Dream Epistemology and ReligiousRevelation in Dante’s Vita nuova
  18. Appendix Italian Text and English Translation of the Vita nuova
  19. Index