10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DANTESQUE»
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Dantesque in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Dantesque and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Book of Arda Viraf: A
Dantesque Vision of Heaven and Hell
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2
Michelangelo's Nose: A Myth and Its Maker
He also painted an Inferno near the Ponte Vecchio following, according to Vasari,
the description of Dante. Vasari's very descriptions of Orcagna's works are
dantesque. In his Last Judgment in Santa Croce, Orcagna is said to have placed
his ...
3
Realm of Unknowing: Meditations on Art, Suicide, and Other ...
Acoustically, this. The mediating term . . . is the explicitly Dantesque word, bufem
—at once the “storm” or better “tempest” of war, but also the terrible “storm of
passion,” the infernal wind that in Dante (Inf. v, 28 ff.) whirls and batters those
stricken ...
4
Narrative and Imperative: The First Fifty Years of Italian ...
experience to a Dantesque hell, writers on the other hand, have turned
instinctively to the Inferno analogy.65 Drawing on a Dantesque (or simply
Christian) matrix, Piazza often refers to Auschwitz as an "inferno" or the "infernal
pit" of a hellish ...
5
Why Mona Lisa Smiles and Other Tales by Vasari
In this Dantesque fiction, Vasari imagines the contemporaries of the artist
appropriately punished for their sinfulness. These sinners are like those whom
Dante condemns in his poem or like Biagio da Cesena, condemned by
Michelangelo for ...
6
Scenes from the Drama of European Literature
This parenthetical move has been the gesture of Dantesque criticism from the
Italian Humanists to, at least, Voltaire. Right now, we seem to be faced with an
impasse: the Italian tradition from Francesco De Sanctis on has been
predominantly ...
7
Dante's Craft: Studies in Language and Style
Dantesque. Style. 6. See Williamson's articles on contemporary Italian poetry in
Poetry. An earlier version of this chapter was published in the Milan magazine
Aut Aut (No. 35, 1 956) and in La lotta con Proteo (Milan, 1963) . The English ...
8
Writers Reading Writers: Intertextual Studies in Medieval ...
After this disturbing touch of the Dantesque underworld, Boccaccio again turns to
Pomponius Mela's account of Manto's Asian journey before relating Virgil's
version of her settlement. However, even though Boccaccio follows Virgil in
giving ...
Janet Levarie Smarr, 2007
9
Joyce's Messianism: Dante, Negative Existence, and the ...
Abortive Poet Mary Reynolds attributes to the Joyce of Finnegans Wake the
adoption of both the Dantesque principle whereby "ideas survive . . . because of [
the] verbal art," and the Viconian principle (which, she claims, Vico learned from ...
'A. Foundling. at. the. Crossroads': Fielding,. Tradition(s). and. a. 'Dantesque'.
Reading. of. Tom. Jones. The image of the foundling at the crossroads appears
as a particularly suitable metaphor for the condition of the English novelist during
...
Richard Littlejohns, Sara Soncini, 2007
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DANTESQUE»
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Dantesque is used in the context of the following news items.
Peabody-Essex hosts 'Song Cycle' with Matthew Aucoin
(Aucoin's recently premiered opera, “Crossing,” also made its Civil War-hospital setting an explicitly Dantesque locale.) Arpeggios delicately ... «Boston Globe, Jun 15»
Hellfest 2015 jour 2, le feu d'artifice
La version de “Epic” (hélas seul titre de “The Real Thing” joué ce soir) est dantesque et, seul regret, le piano n'explose pas à la fin, comme ... «Le Parisien, Jun 15»
Abbott's 'evil' dead set from the Middle Ages
Back when Menzies used it, it still resonated with a Dantesque mediaeval “evil” which was, essentially, the choice to be estranged from God, ... «Crikey, Jun 15»
First Look at Onetti Brothers' Upcoming Giallo Film Francesca
... the mystery surrounding these “Dantesque” crimes. Francesca seems to have returned, but she is not be the same girl who everyone knew… «Dread Central, May 15»
Nepal: Cuban Doctors Have Treated More Than 2000 Patients (+ …
“The landscape was disheartening, Dantesque, I would say. The country didn't need nature to punish it this way. Those who managed to save ... «Escambray, May 15»
What to do about the Gardiner
Since this Dantesque portrait is speculative, one might just as easily imagine that the new boulevard will be lightly travelled, as drivers will find ... «Toronto Star, May 15»
Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy endures as one of the essential …
... "watering their bottoms with their tears", as Beckett put it in his Dantesque prose text All Strange Away. There is nothing like the film in cinema ... «The Independent, May 15»
Fay Maschler's week in food: from masala omelettes to a full …
In Dantesque Broadgate Circle, a Full Spanish breakfast of morcilla Iberico, mushrooms, patatas fritas, fried egg and tomato at Jose Pizarro ... «Evening Standard, May 15»
New Books, 19 May 2015
Barker's vision of Hell is Dantesque in scale and scope, and he employs the same powers of description that he uses to fix unsettling images of ... «Locus Online, May 15»
Composer/Librettist Walks Tightrope
And the story at that time also had a kind of surrealist, almost Dantesque quality of featuring people of different periods of time wandering ... «The Boston Musical Intelligencer, May 15»
