This book, by one of Italy's most important and original contemporary philosophers, represents a broad, general, and ambitious undertaking--nothing less than an attempt to rethink the nature of poetic language and to rearticulate relationships among theology, poetry, and philosophy in a tradition of literature initiated by Dante. The author presents "literature" as a set of formal or linguistic genres that discuss or develop theological issues at a certain distance from the discourse of theology. This distance begins to appear in Virgil and Ovid, but it becomes decisive in Dante and in his decision to write in the vernacular. His vernacular Italian reaches back through classical allusion to the Latin that was in his day the language of theology, but it does so with a difference. It is no accident that in the "Commedia" Virgil is Dante's guide. The book opens with a discussion of just how Dante's poem is a "comedy," and it concludes with a discussion of the "ends of poetry" in a variety of senses: enjambment at the ends of lines, the concluding lines of poems, and the end of poetry as a mode of writing this sort of literature. Of course, to have poetry "end" does not mean that people stop writing it, but that literature passes into a period in which it is concerned with its own ending, with its own bounds and limits, historical and otherwise. Though most of the essays make specific reference to various authors of the Italian literary tradition (including Dante, Polifilo, Pascoli, Delfini, and Caproni), they transcend the confines of Italian literature and engage several other literary and philosophical authors (Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Boethius, the Provencal poets, Mallarme, and Holderlin, among others).
2 有用 丁萌 2012-11-28 06:30:15
太专门了,但论及动物的声音和提醒对中世纪fragment的理解很有意思
0 有用 étoilé 2010-08-10 03:35:13
This book has a general overview, a very interesting view of what is poetry, and how to look at it. There are 15 lectures on individual poems. Poets being discussed include: W.B.Yeats, Emily Dickinson... This book has a general overview, a very interesting view of what is poetry, and how to look at it. There are 15 lectures on individual poems. Poets being discussed include: W.B.Yeats, Emily Dickinson, Ted Hughes, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Fernando Pessoa, etc. You can read this book online: http://www.questia.com/read/13786487 (展开)
0 有用 wwhmjz 2023-04-13 16:05:10 北京
囫囵吞枣地看完。
2 有用 límpido 2018-06-29 22:36:10
第一篇:但丁为什么称自己的著作是喜剧;第四篇:拟声把语言带回到没有内容的意指,也就是意指本身;第八篇:诗存在于语音单元和语义单元的交错,结尾给诗造成的危机,语音溶入语义,变成散文了,但丁关于同归于沉默的做法。
0 有用 wwhmjz 2023-04-13 16:05:10 北京
囫囵吞枣地看完。
2 有用 límpido 2018-06-29 22:36:10
第一篇:但丁为什么称自己的著作是喜剧;第四篇:拟声把语言带回到没有内容的意指,也就是意指本身;第八篇:诗存在于语音单元和语义单元的交错,结尾给诗造成的危机,语音溶入语义,变成散文了,但丁关于同归于沉默的做法。
2 有用 丁萌 2012-11-28 06:30:15
太专门了,但论及动物的声音和提醒对中世纪fragment的理解很有意思
0 有用 étoilé 2010-08-10 03:35:13
This book has a general overview, a very interesting view of what is poetry, and how to look at it. There are 15 lectures on individual poems. Poets being discussed include: W.B.Yeats, Emily Dickinson... This book has a general overview, a very interesting view of what is poetry, and how to look at it. There are 15 lectures on individual poems. Poets being discussed include: W.B.Yeats, Emily Dickinson, Ted Hughes, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Fernando Pessoa, etc. You can read this book online: http://www.questia.com/read/13786487 (展开)