Dante and Polish Writers

<p><i>Dante and Polish Writers: From Romanticism to the Present</i> explores the phenomenon of Polish Danteism from a hermeneutic perspective. The chapters shed light on a series of “encounters” of eminent Polish writers with Dante and the <i>Divine Comedy</i> resulting in original interpretations creative reworkings and a wealth of intertextual references testifying to a dialogue that has always been – and still is – alive not excluding antagonism and bitter controversy. The contributors are all scholars of Polish literature with comparative expertise teaching in Italian and Polish universities which ensures a consistently focused point of view on the receptive context and the ways in which it is affected by the confrontation with Dante. The hermeneutic horizon ranges from the Inferno-like reading of the inhuman lands with which history abounds to the metaphysical yearning underlying Dante’s “poetics of transhumanizing” to recent perspectives related to the posthuman and storytelling.</p>