Published in 1992, Teodolinda Barolini’s The Undivine Comedy: Detheologizing Dante was a clarion call for a paradigmatic shift in reading Dante’s Commedia. Bringing together an international cadre of scholars, A World of Possibilities: The Legacy of ‘The Undivine Comedy’ illustrates the generative influence that Barolini’s approach has exerted across continents, disciplines, and generations. It testifies to the variety of interpretations that originate in her method, and opens new perspectives on Dante’s oeuvre and the significance of literature.
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vii, 404 pp. | 22.9 cm x 15.2 cm
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Cultural Inquiry, 37
ISSN (Print): 2627-728X
ISSN (Online): 2627-731X
Contents
On Method
I. Detheologize to Narrativize
- The Intricate Weaving of The Undivine Comedy
- The Undivine Comedy: Dante One and Multiple
- Reasoning between Possibility, Fictional Reality, and Actuality: A Case Study in Detheologizing the Commedia’s Conditionals
II. Detheologize to Historicize
- Detheologize to Historicize
- Teodolinda Barolini and the Signs of Newness in The Undivine Comedy
- Dante’s War: Exiles, carestia, and Conflict in the Florentine Countryside, 1301–1304
III. Detheologize to Retheologize
- Dante’s Lucy in the Canon Law of Consent
- Prophetic Models and Structures in an Undivine Comedy
- Divining The Undivine Comedy: Reflections and Recollections
IV. Detheologize to Dramatize
- Dante and ‘visibile parlare’
- Ovidio senza Dio: Ovidian Myth and Sexual Violence in the Commedia
- In Praise of Detheologizing
- Heavenly Paradoxes and Their Pleasures
V. Detheologize to Modernize
- The Role of the Reader in Actualizing the Commedia
- From Detheologizing to Decolonizing: Toward a Reading of Dante and Alterity
- Translating The Undivine Comedy