Dante's Two Beloveds
Ethics and Erotics in the Divine Comedy
Holmes, Olivia
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
Re-examining key passages in Dantes oeuvre in the light of the crucial issue of moral choice, this book provides a new thematic framework for interpreting the Divine Comedy. Olivia Holmes shows how Dante articulated the relationship between the human and the divine as an erotic choice between two attractive womenBeatrice and the other woman. Investigating the traditions and archetypes that contributed to the formation of Dantes two beloveds, Holmes shows how Dante brilliantly overlaid and combined these paradigms in his poem. In doing so he re-imagined the two women as not merely oppositional condensations of apparently conflicting cultural traditions but also complementary versions of the same. This visionary insight sheds new light on Dantes corpus and on the essential paradox at the poems heart: the unabashed eroticism of Dantes turn away from the earthly in favor of the divine.
AUTHOR BIO
Olivia Holmes is visiting associate professor of Italian, Dartmouth College. Her previous book, Assembling the Lyric Self, won the American Association of Italian Studies Book Award in 2000. She lives in Hanover, NH.
BOOK REVIEWS
"Dante's Two Beloveds maintains a rare balance between the philological and semiological perspective. Holmes makes an important contribution to Dante studies."-Simone Marchesi, Princeton University
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0300125429
ISBN(13-digit): 9780300125429
Dewey Decimal: 851/.1
Library of Congress: 2008013919
Book Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 274
Paper Weight (lb): 1.20 lb
