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The Metaphysics of Dante's Comedy Moevs, Christian (Dr. Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Fellow of the Medieval Institute, Dr. Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Fellow of the Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame)
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The Metaphysics of Dante's Comedy
Moevs, Christian (Dr. Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Fellow of the Medieval Institute, Dr. Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Fellow of the Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame)
The recovery of Dante's metaphysics-which are very different from our own-is essential, argues Christian Moevs, if we are to resolve what has been called 'the central problem in the interpretation of the Comedy.' That problem is what to make of the Comedy's claim to the status of revelation, vision, or experiential record - as something more than imaginative literature. In this book Moevs offers the first sustained treatment of the metaphysical picture that groundsand motivates the Comedy, and the relation between those metaphysics and Dante's poetics. Moevs arrives at the radical conclusion that Dante believed that all of what we perceive as reality, the spatio-temporal world, is in fact a creation or projection of conscious being. Armed with this newunderstanding, Moevs is able to shed light on a series of perennial issues in the interpretation of the Comedy.
320 pages, black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | October 13, 2008 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195372588 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 324 |
| Dimensions | 158 × 233 × 17 mm · 524 g |
| Language | English |
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