IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 733: 'Dante Now': Trends in Dante Studies 2016, I - Women's Voices
Tuesday 5 July 2016, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Rory D. Sellgren, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
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| Moderator/Chair: | James Robinson, Department of English Studies, Durham University |
| Paper 733-a | Buried in Dialogue: Towards an Archaeology of Beatrix loquax (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Italian, Women's Studies |
| Paper 733-b | Beatrice as Theologian: The Construction of a Female Authority in Dante's Commedia (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Italian, Theology |
| Paper 733-c | Dante and Prejudice: The Female Voice in 'Inferno V' (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Italian |
| Abstract | In 1978, George Steiner wrote 'Dante Now: The Gossip of Eternity' in which he predicted a decline in Dante Studies following the publication of Charles S. Singleton's translation of the Divine Comedy and its accompanying three-volume commentary. In 1995, Theodore Cachey published a collection of essays entitled Dante Now: Current Trends in Dante Studies that demonstrated how Dante is still 'central to ongoing debates in the humanities about the relationship between literature and philosophy, between literature and history, about allegory and/or representation, about the formation and function of the Western literary canon, about issues of gender, intertextuality, and translation' ('Introduction', p. x). This session will discuss representations of the women's voices in Dante's lyrical poetry, theological discourse, and conception of medieval justice. |