TY  - CHAP
A1  - Boitani, Piero
T1  - Irish Dante : Yeats, Joyce, Beckett
T2  - Metamorphosing Dante : appropriations, manipulations, and rewritings in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / ed. by Manuele Gragnolati, Fabio Camilletti and Fabian Lampart ; Cultural Inquiry ; 2
N2  - 'Dante and Ireland', or 'Dante and Irish Writers', is an extremely vast topic, and to cover it a book rather than an essay would be necessary. If the relationship between the poet and Ireland did not begin in the fourteenth century - when Dante himself may have had some knowledge of, and been inspired by, the "Vision of Adamnán", the "Vision of Tungdal", and the "Tractatus de purgatorio Sancti Patricii" - the story certainly had started by the eighteenth, when the Irish man of letters Henry Boyd was the first to produce a complete English translation of the "Comedy", published in 1802. Even if one restricts the field to twentieth-century literature alone, which is the aim in the present piece, the list of authors who are influenced by Dante includes Yeats, Joyce, Beckett, and Heaney - that is to say, four of the major writers not only of Ireland, but of Europe and the entire West. To these should then be added other Irish poets of the first magnitude, such as Louis MacNeice, Ciaran Carson, Eiléan Ní Cuilleanáin, and Thomas Kinsella. Therefore Piero Boitani treats this theme in a somewhat cursory manner, privileging the episodes he considers most relevant and the themes which he thinks form a coherent and intricate pattern of literary history, where every author is not only metamorphosing Dante but also rewriting his predecessor, or predecessors, who had rewritten Dante. Distinct from the English and American Dante of Pound and Eliot, an 'Irish Dante', whom Joyce was to call 'ersed irredent', slowly grows out of this pattern.
KW  - Dante Alighieri
KW  - Productive reception
KW  - Irish literature
KW  - Divina Commedia
KW  - La vita nuova
KW  - Rezeption
KW  - Englisch
KW  - Literatur
KW  - Irland
KW  - Yeats, William Butler
KW  - Joyce, James
KW  - Beckett, Samuel
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/51553
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-515536
UR  - https://www.ici-berlin.org/oa/ci-02/boitani_irish-dante.pdf
SN  - 978-3-85132-617-8
SN  - 2627-731X
SP  - 37
EP  - 59
PB  - Turia + Kant
CY  - Wien
ER  -