IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 821: Crossing Boundaries and Building Identities in Dante's Works, IV
Tuesday 5 July 2022, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Centre for Dante Studies / Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
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Organisers: | Carmen Costanza, School of Languages, Cultures & Societies - Italian, University of Leeds Elisabeth Trischler, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
Moderator/Chair: | Camilla Bambozzi, School of Languages, Cultures & Societies - Italian, University of Leeds |
Paper 821-a | 'Od ombra od omo certo': Redefining Identities between the Corporeal and the Immaterial (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Italian, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
Paper 821-b | On the Border of Vices, on the Border of Virtues (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Italian, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
Paper 821-c | Boundaries between Human and Divine: The Fall of Adam from Matelda's Smile (Purgatory, XXVIII) to the Tears of the Old Man of Crete (Inferno, XIV) (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Italian, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
Abstract | The panel proposes to examine the modes with which Dante Alighieri, in his major work, the Commedia, plays with symmetrical dichotomies such as corporeal and immaterial, human and divine, as well as vices and virtues. In Dante's Commedia, borders and boundaries are at one time the means by which it is possible to define identities and the limit between dichotomies that, through dialogue, can be overcome or integrated. |