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.

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Author:Nicolò CrisafiORCiDGND
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):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0