Interrupted and unfinished : the open-ended Dante of the "Commedia"
- This essay interprets Dante's "Commedia" as an 'open work' (Eco). It grounds its open-endedness in its representations of interruption: from fictional obstacles in the protagonist's path in the "Inferno" to the narrator's anxiety over unfinishedness in the "Paradiso". Taking its cue from Boccaccio's creative rewriting of Dante's life, the essay resists the pressure of 'total coherence' embedded in (and often projected onto) the "Commedia", in order to reclaim the material vulnerability of the text and of its author.
Author: | Nicolò CrisafiORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-687019 |
URL: | https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-23/crisafi_interrupted-and-unfinished.pdf |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-23_05 |
ISBN: | 978-3-96558-029-9 |
ISBN: | 978-3-96558-030-5 |
ISSN: | 2627-731X |
Parent Title (English): | Openness in Medieval Europe / ed. by Manuele Gragnolati and Almut Suerbaum ; Cultural Inquiry ; 23 |
Publisher: | ICI Press |
Place of publication: | Berlin |
Document Type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2022/06/23 |
Year of first Publication: | 2022 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2022/07/06 |
Tag: | Interruption; Open work; Open-ended; Textuality; Unfinished; Vulnerability |
GND Keyword: | Dante, Alighieri; Divina commedia; Offenheit; Unterbrechung; Abgeschlossenheit; Boccaccio, Giovanni; Trattatello in laude di Dante |
Page Number: | 18 |
First Page: | 86 |
Last Page: | 102 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 497192233 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik |
8 Literatur / 85 Italienische, rumänische, rätoromanische Literaturen / 850 Italienische, rumänische, rätoromanische Literaturen | |
Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin | |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 |