Dante and Polish writers : from Romanticism to the present / Andrea Ceccherelli. - New York, NY : Routledge, 2024. - 1 online resource. - Routledge studies in Romanticism .

"Dante and Polish Writers from Romanticism to the Present explores the phenomenon of Polish Danteism from a hermeneutic perspective. The essays shed light on a series of "encounters" of eminent Polish writers with Dante and the Divine Comedy, resulting in original interpretations, creative reworkings, and a wealth of intertextual references testifying to a dialogue that has always been - and still is - alive, not excluding antagonism and bitter controversy. The authors of the essays are all scholars of Polish literature with comparative expertise, teaching in Italian and Polish universities, which ensures a consistently focused point of view on the receptive context and the ways in which it is affected by the confrontation with Dante. The hermeneutic horizon ranges from the Inferno-like reading of the inhuman lands with which history abounds, to the metaphysical yearning underlying Dante's "poetics of transhumanizing", to recent perspectives related to the posthuman and storytelling"--

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Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 --Appreciation--Poland.
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 --Influence.
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia.


Polish literature--History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern (see also Russian & Former Soviet Union)
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian

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