Dante Now

<p>Written by ten distinguished Dante scholars the essays in <i>Dante Now</i> represent the most significant areas of contemporary Dante studies. This collection originating from a 1993 University of Notre Dame conference includes some of the particular on three intensely cultivated areas of Dante studies: poetics minor worksand reception.</p><p>The stimulating ferment on the problem of Dante's poetics is well represented in the first three essays. These range in approach from the stylistic-ideological treatment of Zygmunt G. Baranski's essay to the inter-and intra-textual concerns presented by Christopher Kleinhenz to the compelling hermeneutical and epistemological reflections on Dante's poetics given by Giuseppe Mazzotta. Dante's so-called minor works have increasingly become a focus of attention in contemporary Dante studies and the textual problems represented by the <i>Vita nuova</i> are sweepingly reconsidered by Dino S. Cervigni and Edward Vasta. Ronald L. Martinez dedicates a substantial essay to Dante's poem of exile Tre donne and Albert Russell Ascoli addresses the issue of the relationship between Dante's <i>Commedia</i> and the minor works especially the <i>Monarchia</i>. The final section of essays examines the phenomenon of the original and continuing vitality of Dante's work as a profoundly of influential enduring and enlivening literary classic. R.A. Shoaf addresses the literary influence of Dante in medieval England; Kevin Brownlee investigates Dante's most important medieval French connection in the works of Christine de Pizan; and Nancy Vickers illuminates Dante's translatability into avante garde films and videos. Finally Brian Richardson considers the <i>Commedia</i>'s Fortunes during the Renaissance in terms of its remarkable editorial and publishing history.</p>