Reading Dante The Pursuit of Meaning

Reading Dante The Pursuit of Meaning examines the problem of thematic coherence in Dante'sDivina Commedia. Unlike many Dante scholars who maintain that the poem's unity is the account of a journey through the afterworld, Jesper Hede argues that a systematic parallel reading of the poem's three parts (Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise) reveals that it is the vision of divine order that provides the poem with its thematic unity.

Jesper Hede is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Rhetoric, Department for Comparative Literature, Aarhus University.

Preface	p. vii
Abbreviations	p. xv
Enigma of Meaning	p. 1
Heraclitean River	p. 41
Design in the Wax	p. 81
Fragile Leaves of the Sibyl	p. 125
Courage of Venus	p. 171
Circle of Violence	p. 221
Bibliography	p. 269
Index	p. 279
About the Author	p. 287
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