Dante's Interpretive JourneyUniversity of Chicago Press, 1996 M04 15 - 250 páginas Critically engaging the thought of Heidegger, Gadamer, and others, William Franke contributes both to the criticism of Dante's Divine Comedy and to the theory of interpretation. Reading the poem through the lens of hermeneutical theory, Franke focuses particularly on Dante's address to the reader as the site of a disclosure of truth. The event of the poem for its reader becomes potentially an experience of truth both human and divine. While contemporary criticism has concentrated on the historical character of Dante's poem, often insisting on it as undermining the poem's claims to transcendence, Franke argues that precisely the poem's historicity forms the ground for its mediation of a religious revelation. Dante's dramatization, on an epic scale, of the act of interpretation itself participates in the self-manifestation of the Word in poetic form. Dante's Interpretive Journey is an indispensable addition to the field of Dante studies and offers rich insights for philosophy and theology as well. |
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Truth and Interpretation in the Divine comedy | 1 |
CHAPTER ONE The Address to the Reader | 37 |
lnferno IX | 82 |
CHAPTER THREE The Temporality of Conversion | 119 |
CHAPTER FOUR The Making of History | 152 |
CHAPTER FIVE Resurrected Tradition and Revealed Truth | 191 |
RECAPITULATORY PROSPECTUS A New Hermeneutic Horizon for Religious Revelation in Poetic Literature? | 233 |
Core Bibliography of Recurrently Cited Sources | 239 |
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