Dante for the new millennium : [... Conference "Dante2000" ... held at Columbia University on April 7-9, 2000

the Twenty-five Original Essays In This Remarkable Book Constitute Both A State Of The Art Survey Of Dante Scholarship And A Manifesto For New Understandings Of One Of The World's Great Poets. The Fruit Of An Historic Conference Called By The Dante Society Of America, The Essays Confront A Range Of Important Questions. What Theories, Methods, And Issues Are Unique To Dante Scholarship? How Are They Changing? What Is The Essence Of The Distinctive American Dante Tradition? Why—and How—do We Read Dante In Today's Global, Postmodern Culture? From John Ahern On The First Copies Of The Commedia To Peter Hawkins And Rachel Jacoff On Dante After Modernism, The Essays Shed Brilliant New Light On Dante's Texts, His World, And What We Make Of His Legacy. The Contributors: John Ahern, H. Wayne Storey, Guglielmo Gorni, Teodolinda Barolini, Gary P. Cestaro, Lino Pertile, F. Regina Psaki, Steven Botterill, Giuseppe Mazzotta, Alison Cornish, Robert M. Durling, Manuele Gragnolati, Giuliana Carugati, Susan Noakes, Zygmunt Baranski, Christopher Kleinhenz, Ronald L. Martinez, Ronald Herzman, Amilcare Iannucci, Albert Russell Ascoli, Michelangelo Picone, Jessica Levenstein, David Foster Wallace, Piero Boitani, Peter Hawkins, And Rachel Jacoff. Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction Notes for an Introduction Abbreviations Philologies 1 What Did the First Copies of the Comedy Look Like? 2 Early Editorial Forms of Dante's Lyrics 3 Material Philology, Conjectural Philology, Philology without Adjectives Philologies: Works Cited Appetites 4 Beyond (Courtly) Dualism: Thinking about Gender in Dante's Lyrics 5 Queering Nature, Queering Gender: Dante and Sodomy 6 Does the Stilnovo Go to Heaven? 7 Love for Beatrice: Transcending Contradiction in the Paradiso Appetites: Works Cited Philosophies 8 Mysticism and Meaning in Dante's Paradiso 9 The Heaven of the Sun: Dante between Aquinas and Bonaventure 10 Vulgarizing Science: Vernacular Translation of Natural Philosophy 11 The Body and the Flesh in the Purgatorio 12 From Plurality to (Near) Unicity of Forms: Embryology in Purgatorio 25 13 Quando amor fa sentir de la sua pace Philosophies: Works Cited Reception 14 Virility, Nobility, and Banking: The Crossing of Discourses in the Tenzone with Forese 15 Scatology and Obscenity in Dante 16 On Dante and the Visual Arts Reception: Works Cited Histories 17 Dante's Jeremiads: The Fall of Jerusalem and the Burden of the New Pharisees, the Capetians, and Florence 18 From Francis to Solomon: Eschatology in the Sun 19 Already and Not Yet: Dante's Existential Eschatology 20 Dante after Dante Histories: Works Cited Rewritings 21 Ovid and the Exul Inmeritus 22 The Re-Formation of Marsyas in Paradiso 1 23 Dante in England 24 Moby-Dante? 25 Still Here: Dante after Modernism Rewritings: Works Cited Notes on Contributors Index Proceedings of'Dante2000,'sponsored by the Dante Society of America and the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, held at Columbia University on Apr. 7-9, 2000.