Boldrini's study examines how the literary and linguistic theories of Dante's Divine Comedy helped shape the radical narrative techniques of Joyce's last novel Finnegans Wake. Through detailed parallel readings, she explores a range of connections: issues such as the question of Babel, literary creation as excrement, the complex relations among literary, geometrical and female forms. This book will appeal to scholars and students interested in Joyce, Dante, and questions of literary relations.
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"Her ability to tackle seemingly baffling and insurmountable textual conundrums in both Dante and Joyce is remarkable. Moreover, she bypasses the set ways of discussing influence and intertextuality in order to offer fresh and invigorating readings of literary relations." Jennifer Frazer, James Joyce Literary Supplement
"The book's scope...is broad enough to warrant the attention of readers interested in both authors, as well as in theoretical questions of relations between and among texts [...] Seamless." The Comparatist
"Her effort to describe the language in Finnegan's Wake deserves to be read by every student of Joyce and by those who are interested in how the medieval world was retrieved by the modernists as a source of influence and inspiration." James Joyce Quarterly
"The book's scope...is broad enough to warrant the attention of readers interested in both authors, as well as in theoretical questions of relations between and among texts [...] Seamless." The Comparatist
"Her effort to describe the language in Finnegan's Wake deserves to be read by every student of Joyce and by those who are interested in how the medieval world was retrieved by the modernists as a source of influence and inspiration." James Joyce Quarterly
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Boldrini's study examines how the literary and linguistic theories of Dante's Divine Comedy helped shape the radical narrative techniques of Joyce's last novel Finnegans Wake. Through detailed parallel readings, she explores a range of connections: issues such as the question of Babel, literary creation as excrement, the complex relations between literary, geometrical and female forms. This book will appeal to scholars and students interested in Joyce, Dante, and questions of literary relations.
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Extremely knowledgeable book about Dante and Joyce. I particularly liked its explication of the contention that Dante was fluent in all the major Italian dialects.
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Dante's poetic work, from the Vita Nuova to the Divine Comedy, is informed by recurrent concerns that also provide the conceptual foundations for the Convivio and the De vulgari eloquentia, the two treatises begun in the early fourteenth century but left unfinished, sacrificed perhaps to the more urgent need to compose the Commedia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vulgare illustre, synthetic ink, enveloping facts, illustrious language, vista nova, vulgari eloquentia, fourfold meaning, beautiful fiction, literary relations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Finnegans Wake, Divine Comedy, Can Grande, Phoenix Park, Anna Livia, Middle Ages, Tim Finnegan, Finnegan Wake, Giordano Bruno, Shem the Penman, Stephen Hero, Harry Levin, Humpty Dumpty, Thomas Aquinas, Festy King, Mary Reynolds, Miss Portinari, Samuel Beckett, Sylvia Silence, Biddy Doran, Umberto Eco New!
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Dante's poetic work, from the Vita Nuova to the Divine Comedy, is informed by recurrent concerns that also provide the conceptual foundations for the Convivio and the De vulgari eloquentia, the two treatises begun in the early fourteenth century but left unfinished, sacrificed perhaps to the more urgent need to compose the Commedia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vulgare illustre, synthetic ink, enveloping facts, illustrious language, vista nova, vulgari eloquentia, fourfold meaning, beautiful fiction, literary relations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Finnegans Wake, Divine Comedy, Can Grande, Phoenix Park, Anna Livia, Middle Ages, Tim Finnegan, Finnegan Wake, Giordano Bruno, Shem the Penman, Stephen Hero, Harry Levin, Humpty Dumpty, Thomas Aquinas, Festy King, Mary Reynolds, Miss Portinari, Samuel Beckett, Sylvia Silence, Biddy Doran, Umberto Eco New!
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- Finnegans Wake (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by James Joyce on 80 pages
- Divine Comedy (Oxford World's Classics) by Dante Alighieri on 41 pages
- The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso) by Dante Alighieri on 41 pages
- Vita Nuova (Oxford World's Classics) by Dante Alighieri on 12 pages
- Stephen Hero by James Joyce on 10 pages
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