Dante's two beloveds
Olivia Holmes · 2008
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About the book
"Reexamining key passages in Dante's 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 women - Beatrice and the "other woman."" "Investigating the traditions and archetypes that contributed to the formation of Dante's two beloveds, Holmes shows how Dante brilliantly overlaid and combined these paradigms in his poem. In doing so he reimagined the two women as not merely oppositional condensations of apparently conflicting cultural traditions but also complementary versions of the same." "This insight sheds new light on Dante's corpus and on the essential paradox at the poem's heart: the unabashed eroticism of Dante's turn away from the earthly in favor of the divine."--BOOK JACKET.
Book details
- Year
- 2008
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Editions
- 2
- Pages
- 274
- ISBN
- 9780300125429
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