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Oggetto: [I-S] New Publication: Metamorphosing Dante
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Data: Giovedì 6 gennaio 2011, 08:41

italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
Dear Colleagues,

please find enclosed information about the newly-published volume

Metamorphosing Dante: Appropriations, Manipulations, and Rewritings in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, ed. by Manuele Gragnolati, Fabio Camilletti, and Fabian Lampart (Berlin-Wien: Turia + Kant, 2011), 414 pp.

Further information on the volume (including the link to a free download of table of contents and introduction) can be found at the address: http://ci.ici-berlin.org/volumes/327

After almost seven centuries, Dante endures and even seems to haunt the present. Metamorphosing Dante explores what so many authors, artists and thinkers from varied backgrounds have found in Dante’s oeuvre, and the ways in which they have engaged with it through rewritings, dialogues, and transpositions. By establishing trans-disciplinary routes, the volume shows that, along with a corpus of multiple linguistic and narrative structures, characters, and stories, Dante has provided a field of tensions in which to mirror and investigate those of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Authors explored include Samuel Beckett, Walter Benjamin, André Gide, Derek Jarman, LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, James Joyce, Wolfgang Koeppen, Jacques Lacan, Thomas Mann, James Merrill, Eugenio Montale, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Cesare Pavese, Giorgio Pressburger, Robert Rauschenberg, Vittorio Sereni, Virginia Woolf.

CONTRIBUTORS: Erminia Ardissino, Piero Boitani, Fabio Camilletti, Antonella Francini, Nicola Gardini, Manuele Gragnolati, Rachel Jacoff, Nick Havely, Tristan Kay, Dennis Looney, Davide Luglio, Manuela Marchesini, Angela Merte-Rankin, James Miller, Federica Pich, Teresa Prudente, Ronald de Rooy, Francesca Southerden, Florian Trabert, Rebecca West

With best wishes,

Fabio Camilletti
University of Warwick

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

1. Fabio Camilletti, Manuele Gragnolati, Fabian Lampart: Metamorphosing Dante

PART I. CANONIZATIONS

2. Federica Pich: Dante’s ‘Strangeness’: The Commedia and the Late Twentieth-Century Debate on the Literary Canon
3. Piero Boitani: Irish Dante: Yeats, Joyce, Beckett
4. Nicola Gardini: Dante as a Gay Poet

PART II. ESCHATOLOGIES

5. Angela Merte-Rankin: Dante’s Inferno and Walter Benjamin’s Cities: Considerations of Place, Experience, and Media
6. Florian Trabert: ‘Il mal seme d’Adamo’: Dante’s Inferno and the Problem of Literary Representation of Evil in Thomas Mann’s Doktor Faustus and Wolfgang Koeppen’s Der Tod in Rom
7. Tristan Kay: ‘Una modesta Divina Commedia’: Dante as Anti-Model in Cesare Pavese’s La luna e i falò
8. Rachel Jacoff: Reclaiming Paradiso: Dante in the Poetry of James Merrill and Charles Wright
9. Erminia Ardissino: ‘Perché mi vince il lume d’esta stella’: Giovanni Giudici’s Rewriting of Dante’s Paradiso for the Theatre
10. Francesca Southerden: ‘Per-tras-versioni’ dantesche: Post-Paradisiacal Constellations in the Poetry of Vittorio Sereni and Andrea Zanzotto

PART III. SUBJECTIVITIES

11. Fabio Camilletti: Human Desire, Deadly Love: The Vita Nova in Gide, Delay, Lacan
12. Rebecca West: Wives and Lovers in Dante and Eugenio Montale
13. James Miller: Man with Snake: Dante in Derek Jarman’s Edward II
14. Manuele Gragnolati: Rewriting Dante after Freud and the Shoah: Giorgio Pressburger’s Nel regno oscuro

PART IV. TRANS-LATIONS

15. Teresa Prudente: ‘Misi me per l’alto mare aperto’: Personality and Impersonality in Virginia Woolf’s Reading of Dante’s Allegorical Language
16. Nick Havely: ‘Hell on a Paying Basis’: Morality, the Market, and the Movies in Harry Lachman’s Dante’s Inferno (1935)
17. Manuela Marchesini: From Giorgio Agamben’s Italian Category of ‘Comedy’ to ‘Profanation’ as the Political Task of Modernity: Ingravallo's Soaring Descent, or Dante According to Carlo Emilio Gadda
18. Dennis Looney: Literary Heresy: The Dantesque Metamorphosis of LeRoi Jones into Amiri Baraka
19. Antonella Francini: Transferring Dante: Robert Rauschenberg’s Thirty-Four Illustrations for the Inferno
20. Davide Luglio: ‘Anziché allargare, dilaterai!’: Allegory and Mimesis from Dante’s Comedy to Pier Paolo Pasolini’s La Divina Mimesis
21. Ronald de Rooy: A Cardboard Dante: Hell’s Metropolis Revisited

BIBLIOGRAPHY

NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX OF NAMES

INDEX OF PASSAGES FROM DANTE'S WORKS
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