Joyce's Dante

Joyce's engagement with Dante is a crucial component of all of his work. This title reconsiders the responses to Dante in Joyce's work from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man to Finnegans Wake. It presents that encounter as an historically complex and contextually determined interaction reflecting the contested development of Dante's reputation, readership and textuality throughout the nineteenth century. This process produced a 'Dante with a difference', a uniquely creative and unorthodox construction of the poet which informed Joyce's lifelong engagement with such works as the Vita Nuova and the Commedia. Tracing the movement through Joyce's writing on exile as a mode of alienation and charting his growing interest in ideas of community, Joyce's Dante shows how awareness of his changing reading of Dante can alter our understanding of one of the Irish writer's lasting thematic preoccupations.

Author: James Robinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 10/14/2016
Pages: 242
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.37h x 6.37w x 0.77d
ISBN: 9781107167414

About the Author
Robinson, James: - James Robinson is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Department of English Studies, Durham University.