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The Cambridge Companion to Dante

By: Rachel Jacoff

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The Cambridge Companion to Dante

By: Rachel Jacoff

Fifteen specially-commissioned essays by distinguished scholars provide an introduction to Dante that is at once accessible and challenging.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521427428

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9780521427425

The Poetry of Allusion

Virgil and Ovid in Dante’s ‘Commedia’

By: Rachel Jacoff,Robert Ball

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The Poetry of Allusion

Virgil and Ovid in Dante’s ‘Commedia’

By: Rachel Jacoff,Robert Ball

A Stanford University Press classic.

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Stanford University Press

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0804718601

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9780804718608

Dante and the Practice of Humility

A Theological Commentary on the Divine Comedy

By: Rachel K. Teubner

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Dante and the Practice of Humility

A Theological Commentary on the Divine Comedy

By: Rachel K. Teubner

In this book, Rachel Teubner offers an exploration of humility in Dante's Divine Comedy, arguing that the poem is an ascetical exercise concerned with training its author gradually in the practice of humility, rather than being a reflection of authorial hubris. A contribution to recent scholarship that considers the poem to be a work of self-examination, her volume investigates its scriptural, literary, and liturgical sources, also offering fresh feminist perspectives on its theological challenges. Teubner demonstrates how the poetry of the Comedy is theologically significant, focusing especially on the poem's definition of humility as ethically and artistically meaningful. Interrogating the text canto by canto, she also reveals how contemporary tools of literary analysis can offer new insights into its meaning. Undergraduate and novice readers will benefit from this companion, just as theologians and scholars of medieval religion will be introduced to a growing body of scholarship exploring Dante's religious thought.

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367

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Cambridge University Press

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1009315366

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9781009315364

A Long Essay on the Long Poem

Modern and Contemporary Poetics and Practices

By: Rachel Blau DuPlessis

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A Long Essay on the Long Poem

Modern and Contemporary Poetics and Practices

By: Rachel Blau DuPlessis

In A Long Essay on the Long Poem, DuPlessis invokes a quote from Ronald Johnson: "Americans like to write big poems, even if people don't read them." It's a joke, in part, but also a telling indication of the difficulty of the subject. Long poems are elusive, particularly in the slippery forms that have emerged in the postmodern mode. DuPlessis quotes both Nathaniel Mackey and Anne Waldman in metaphorizing the poem as a Box: both in the sense of a vessel that contains, and as a machine that processes, an instrument on which language is played. To reckon with a particularly noncompliant variant of a notoriously slippery form, DuPlessis works in a polyvalent mode, a hybrid of critical analysis and speculative essay. She resists a single-focus approach to the long poem and does not venture a bravura, one-size-all thesis. Yet there is an arc of argument here, even as the book ranges across five chapters and a host of disparate writers. DuPlessis roughly divides the long poem and the long poets into three genres: epics, quests, and something she terms "assemblages." The poets surveyed will be familiar for most readers of twentieth-century American and English poetry: T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Louis Zukofsky, Charles Olson, Alice Notley, Anne Waldman, Nathaniel Mackey, Ron Silliman, and Robert Duncan. But rather than attempting a definitive treatment of such a long roster, DuPlessis assumes a certain familiarity in order to focus on key works. A standout example comes in the third chapter, in which DuPlessis reads Dante by way of the modern long poem to generate surprising insights. But she also carefully avoids the self-confirming search for genealogical patterns (e.g., Eliot to Pound to Williams to Zukofsky). Instead she deliberately seeks to see different but intersecting patterns of connection between poems, a nexus rather than a lineage. In doing so she works around the metatextual challenge of the long poem and of her own attempt to "essay" it: how to encompass "everything." The end result is a fascinating and generous work that defies neat categorization as anything other than essential"--

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308

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University of Alabama Press

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0817360689

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9780817360689

Hell in Contemporary Literature

Western Descent Narratives Since 1945

By: Falconer Rachel Falconer

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Hell in Contemporary Literature

Western Descent Narratives Since 1945

By: Falconer Rachel Falconer

What does it mean when people use the word 'Hell' to convey the horror of an actual, personal or historical experience? Now available in paperback, this book explores the idea that modern, Western secular cultures have retained a belief in the concept of Hell as an event or experience of endless or unjust suffering. In the contemporary period, the descent to Hell has come to represent the means of recovering - or discovering - selfhood. In exploring these ideas, this book discusses descent journeys in Holocaust testimony and fiction, memoirs of mental illness, and feminist, postmodern and postcolonial narratives written after 1945. A wide range of texts are discussed, including writing by Primo Levi, W.G. Sebald, Anne Michaels, Alasdair Gray, and Salman Rushdie, and films such as Coppola's Apocalypse Now and the Matrix trilogy. Drawing on theoretical writing by Bakhtin, Levinas, Derrida, Judith Butler, David Harvey and Paul Ricoeur, the book addresses such broader theoretical issues as: narration and identity; the ethics of the subject; trauma and memory; descent as sexual or political dissent; the interrelation of realism and fantasy; and Occidentalism and Orientalism.Key Features*Defines and discusses what constitutes Hell in contemporary secular Western cultures*Relates ideas from psychoanalysis to literary traditions ranging from Virgil and Dante to the present*Explores the concept of Hell in relation to crises in Western thought and identity. e.g. distortions of global capitalism, mental illness, war trauma and incarceration*Explains the significance of this narrative tradition of a 'descent to hell' in the immediate political context of 9/11 and its aftermath

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264

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474468136

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9781474468138

Good on Paper

A Novel

By: Rachel Cantor

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A Novel

By: Rachel Cantor

Is a new life possible? Shira is a permanent temp with a few short stories published in minor literary magazines and a PhD on Dante's Vita Nuova that she abandoned halfway. Her life has some happy certainties, though: she lives with her friend Ahmad, and her daughter, Andi, on the Upper West Side. They're an unconventional family, but a real one, with Friday night dinner rituals, private jokes and the shared joys and strains of any other family. A deft, funny, and big-hearted novel about second chances, Good On Paper is a grand story of family, friendship and possibility.

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322

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Melville House

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1612194702

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9781612194707

The Crossover Novel

Contemporary Children's Fiction and Its Adult Readership

By: Rachel Falconer

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The Crossover Novel

Contemporary Children's Fiction and Its Adult Readership

By: Rachel Falconer

Highly recommended" by Choice While crossover books such as Rowling's Harry Potter series have enjoyed enormous sales and media attention, critical analysis of crossover fiction has not kept pace with the growing popularity of this new category of writing and reading. Falconer remedies this lack with close readings of six major British works of crossover fiction, and a wide-ranging analysis of the social and cultural implications of the global crossover phenomenon. A uniquely in-depth study of the crossover novel, Falconer engages with a ground-breaking range of sources, from primary texts, to child and adult reader responses, to cultural and critical theory.

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482

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Routledge

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1135865000

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9781135865009

Rachela

By: Rachel Schlufman,Rachela Walshaw

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Rachela

By: Rachel Schlufman,Rachela Walshaw

In this unique follow-up memoir to the author

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209

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Xlibris Corporation

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1413437230

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9781413437232

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The Cambridge Companion to Dante

The Cambridge Companion to Dante

The Poetry of Allusion

The Poetry of Allusion

Dante and the Practice of Humility

Dante and the Practice of Humility

A Long Essay on the Long Poem

A Long Essay on the Long Poem

Hell in Contemporary Literature

Hell in Contemporary Literature

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Good on Paper

The Crossover Novel

The Crossover Novel

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