{"product_id":"dantes-vita-nova-a-collaborative-reading-9780268207403","title":"Dante's Vita Nova: A Collaborative Reading","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis original volume proposes a novel way of reading Dante's \u003cem\u003eVita nova\u003c\/em\u003e, exemplified in a rich diversity of scholarly approaches to the text.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis groundbreaking volume represents the fruit of a two-year-long series of international seminars aimed at developing a fresh way of reading Dante's \u003cem\u003eVita nova\u003c\/em\u003e. By analyzing each of its forty-two chapters individually, focus is concentrated on the \u003cem\u003eVita nova\u003c\/em\u003e in its textual and historical context rather than on its relationship to the \u003cem\u003eDivine Comedy\u003c\/em\u003e. This decoupling has freed the contributors to draw attention to various important literary features of the text, including its rich and complex polysemy, as well as its structural fluidity. The volume likewise offers insights into Dante's social environment, his relationships with other poets, and Dante's evolving vision of his poetry's scope. Using a variety of critical methodologies and hermeneutical approaches, this volume offers scholars an opportunity to reread the \u003cem\u003eVita nova\u003c\/em\u003e in a renewed context and from a diversity of literary, cultural, and ideological perspectives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors: Zygmunt G. Barański, Heather Webb, Claire E. Honess, Brian F. Richardson, Ruth Chester, Federica Pich, Matthew Treherne, Catherine Keen, Jennifer Rushworth, Daragh O'Connell, Sophie V. Fuller, Giulia Gaimari, Emily Kate Price, Manuele Gragnolati, Elena Lombardi, Francesca Southerden, Rebecca Bowen, Nicolò Crisafi, Lachlan Hughes, Franco Costantini, David Bowe, Tristan Kay, Filippo Gianferrari, Simon Gilson, Rebekah Locke, Luca Lombardo, Peter Dent, George Ferzoco, Paola Nasti, Marco Grimaldi, David G. Lummus, Helena Phillips-Robins, Aiste Kiltinavičiūte, Alessia Carrai, Ryan Pepin, Valentina Mele, Katherine Powlesland, Federica Coluzzi, K. P. Clarke, Nicolò Maldina, Theodore J. Cachey Jr., Chiara Sbordoni, Lorenzo Dell'Oso, and Anne C. Leone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eZygmunt G. Barański is Serena Professor Emeritus at the University of Cambridge, Emeritus R. L. Canala Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame, and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eDante's \"Other Works\" Assessments and Interpretations\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Notre Dame Press, 2022).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeather Webb is professor of medieval Italian literature and culture at the University of Cambridge and author of \u003ci\u003eDante, Artist of Gesture\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Notre Dame Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50651762786578,"sku":"9780268207403","price":71.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_52005095-aef3-4ab3-9c18-6a97cd2d94ae.jpg?v=1733309026","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dantes-vita-nova-a-collaborative-reading-9780268207403","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}