Approaches to Teaching Dante's Divine Comedy
Christopher Kleinhenz editor Kristina Olson editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Modern Language Association of America
Published:28th Feb '20
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Dante's Divine Comedy can compel and shock readers: it combines intense emotion and psychological insight with medieval theology and philosophy. This volume will help instructors lead their students through the many dimensions - historical, literary, religious, and ethical - that make the work so rewarding and enduringly relevant yet so difficult.
Part 1, "Materials," gives instructors an overview of the important scholarship on the Divine Comedy. The essays of part 2, "Approaches," describe ways to teach the work in the light of its contemporary culture and ours. Various teaching situations (a freshman seminar, a creative writing class, high school, a prison) are considered, and the many available translations are discussed.
The authors in this volume expertly address both traditional and new trends in Dante scholarship, covering the field and breaking new ground. The editors do a superb job of bringing these themes together and providing a context for them." - Arielle Saiber, Bowdoin College
ISBN: 9781603294270
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 433g
300 pages
2nd Revised edition