Includes bibliographical references )p. 96-99( and indexIncludes bibliographical references )p. 96-99( and index
edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom
Biography of Dante Alighieri -- Thematic analysis of the Vita Nuova -- Critical views on the Vita Nuova: Charles S. Singleton on Dante's Book of memory -- Bernard S. Levy on the Gospel of John and Vita Nuova XLI -- James T.S. Wheelock on the synthesis of Christian and courtly loves -- Giuseppe Mazzotta on imagination and transcendence -- Robert Pogue Harrison on Dante versus the Stilnovists -- Thematic analysis of the Rime Petrose -- Critical views of the Rime Petrose: Peter E. Bondanella on Dante and Provencal lyric -- Margaret Spanos on obsession and the sestina form -- Bruce Comens on the unity of the Petrose -- Sara Sturm-Maddox on the rejection of Pietra -- Ronald L. Martinez and Robert M. Durling on the Petrose and the Commedia -- Thematic analysis of the Inferno -- Critical views on the Inferno: William Hazlitt on Dante's originality -- Francesco de Sanctis on Ugolino -- Leo Spitzer on language in the Wood of the Suicides -- Erich Auerbach on Farinate, Cavalcante, and changelessness -- Renato Poggioli on Francesca and Lancelot -- Kenneth Gross on crimes and punishments -- Teodolinda Barolini on Dante and Ulysses -- Thematic analysis of the Purgatorio -- Critical views on the Purgatorio: Philip H. Wicksteed on the invention of Dante's Purgatory -- Karl Vossler on character and mood in Purgatory -- Robert Hollander on Cato and Christ -- Richard Abrams on poets and gluttons -- Peter Dronke on the Gryphon -- Peter Armour on the seven P's -- Peter S. Hawkins on Ovid and Matelda -- Thematic analysis of the Paradiso -- Critical views on the Paradiso: Joseph Anthony Mazzeo on light metaphysics -- A.C. Charity on Cacciaguida, exile, and martyrdom -- John Freccero on Dante's neoplatonism -- Glauco Cambon on synaesthesia -- Marguerite Mills Chiarenza on the faces in the moon -- Robin Kirkpatrick on objectivity and language -- Jeffrey T. Schnapp on signs of the cross
Criticism and interpretation ، Dante Alighieri,5621-1231