Sound and Structure in the Divine Comedy
, by Robey, DavidNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780198184980 | 0198184980
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 3/15/2001
This book uses a variety of computer-based processes to construct a systematic analytical description of the sounds of Dante's Divine Comedy in the sense of their overall distribution within the text. The description is developed through a comparative treatment of the same features in a range of related texts, with a view to defining the distinctive characteristics of Dante's practice; and by a discussion of the function and effect of sounds in the work, with special attention to unusually high incidences of particular features. The book is thus both a contribution to the scholarly debate about Dante's poem, and an illustration and discussion of the ways in which new electronic technology can be used for this kind of purpose.