The Body of Beatrice
Published on 1. October 1988
Book
Hardback
220 pages
978-0-8018-3680-0 (ISBN)
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Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore, MD
United States
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 140 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8018-3680-0 (9780801836800)
DOI
10.56021/9780801836800
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Robert Pogue Harrison
The Body of Beatrice
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12/2000
Johns Hopkins University Press
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Robert Pogue Harrison is a professor of literature at Stanford University, where he is Rosina Pierotti Professor in Italian Literature in the Department of French & Italian.
Content
Preface
Acknowledgments
Editions and Translations
Introduction: Critical Differences
Part I. Beatrice Alive
Chapter One. Dante's Dream
Chapter Two. The Ideal Lyric
Chapter Three. Figures of Love
Chapter Four. The Ghost of Guido Calvalcanti
Part Two. Beatrice Dead
Chapter Five. The Death of Beatrice and the Petrarchan Alternative
Chapter Six. Beyond the Lyric
Chapter Seven. The Narrative Breakthrough
Chapter Eight. Vision and Revision: The Provisional Essence of the Vita Nuova
Epilogue
Notes
Index of Passages Cited
General Index
Acknowledgments
Editions and Translations
Introduction: Critical Differences
Part I. Beatrice Alive
Chapter One. Dante's Dream
Chapter Two. The Ideal Lyric
Chapter Three. Figures of Love
Chapter Four. The Ghost of Guido Calvalcanti
Part Two. Beatrice Dead
Chapter Five. The Death of Beatrice and the Petrarchan Alternative
Chapter Six. Beyond the Lyric
Chapter Seven. The Narrative Breakthrough
Chapter Eight. Vision and Revision: The Provisional Essence of the Vita Nuova
Epilogue
Notes
Index of Passages Cited
General Index