- A South African Convivio with Dante
- A cura di Sonia Fanucchi, Anita Virga
“Dante, Can I Lead You?” South African students write back (across seven centuries and a hemisphere)
- Chris Thurman
- © 2021 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/978-88-5518-458-8.05
This account of the essays, poems and stories collected in the present volume reflects on the authors’ diverse forms of engagement with Dante via the implications of proximity and distance. In what ways do these students signal affinity with Dante – his historical context, his writerly persona – and in what ways do they subvert or challenge the world view (or the cosmic order) represented in the Commedia? How does their location in South Africa in the twenty-first century, as a particular kind of temporal and spatial dislocation from Italy in the fourteenth century, enable their creative and critical responses to Dante’s work?
- Keywords:
- Dante in South Africa,
- Dante in translation,
- teaching Dante,
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa - ORCID: 0000-0001-5854-3145
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Titolo del capitolo
“Dante, Can I Lead You?” South African students write back (across seven centuries and a hemisphere)
Autori
Chris Thurman
Lingua
English
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-458-8.05
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2021
Copyright
© 2021 Author(s)
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Licenza dei metadati
Informazioni bibliografiche
Titolo del libro
A South African Convivio with Dante
Sottotitolo del libro
Born Frees’ Interpretations of the Commedia
Curatori
Sonia Fanucchi, Anita Virga
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
212
Anno di pubblicazione
2021
Copyright
© 2021 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-458-8
ISBN Print
978-88-5518-457-1
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-458-8
Collana
Studi e saggi
ISSN della collana
2704-6478
e-ISSN della collana
2704-5919