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Mismapping the Underworld
Daring and Error in Dante's ‘comedy’
John Kleiner
Stanford University Press · Print & ebook · May 1, 1994
Reading lane: Italian Literary Criticism
John Kleiner investigates the place of error in the moral and aesthetic system of Dante's Comedy .
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- Authors
- John Kleiner
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Published
- May 1, 1994
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Italian Literary Criticism · 16th-Century Literary Criticism
- Reading lane
- Italian Literary Criticism
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European Poetry
About This Book
John Kleiner investigates the place of error in the moral and aesthetic system of Dante's Comedy . He argues that Dante's delight in finely wrought patterns does not exclude an interest in patterns of disorder, that his pursuit of harmony intensifies his interest in dissonance.
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