The Poetics of Dante's Paradiso

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ISBN: 9781442641198 | 1442641193
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Copyright: 7/12/2010

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A highly original and comprehensive reading, The Poetics of Dante's Paradiso challenges established scholarly interpretations to demonstrate that the intricacies of Dante's text reveal a subtle irony, employed to deliver a sharp critique of the corrupt church and empire of his own time.

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Preface and Acknowledgments	p. ix
Notes on the Texts	p. xi
Introduction	p. 3
DXV and Paradiso	p. 6
The Poetics of Paradiso	p. 12
Heaven of the Moon: Grammar (II-IV)	p. 23
Heaven of Mercury: Dialectics (V-VII)	p. 36
Heaven of Venus: Rhetoric (VIII-IX)	p. 46
Heaven of the Sun: Arithmetic (X-XIV)	p. 59
Heaven of Mars: Music (XV-XVII)	p. 77
Heaven of Jupiter: Geometry (XVIII-XX)	p. 108
Heaven of Saturn: Astronomy (XXI-XXII)	p. 116
Fixed Stars: Physics and Metaphysics (XXIV-XXVII)	p. 124
Primum Mobile: Moral Philosophy (XXVII-XXIX)	p. 146
Empyrean: Theology (XXX-XXXIII)	p. 161
Conclusions	p. 170
Index	p. 175
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