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        Literature & Literary Studies
        November 2021

        Dante beyond influence

        Rethinking reception in Victorian literary culture

        by Federica Coluzzi, Anna Barton

        Dante beyond influence is the first study to conceptualise and historicise the hermeneutic turn in Dante reception history and Victorian cultural history, charting its development across intellectual realms, agents and forms of readerly and writerly engagement. Unearthing previously unseen manuscript and print evidence, the book conducts a material and book-historical inquiry into the formation and popularisation of the critical and scholarly discourse on Dante through Victorian periodicals, mass-publishing, traditional and Extramural higher education. The book demonstrates that the transformation of Dante from object of amateur interest (dantophilia) to subject of systematic interpretive endeavours (dantismo) reflected paradigmatic changes in Victorian intellectual and socio-cultural history.

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        November 1997

        Dante und die Göttliche Komödie

        by Olof Lagercrantz, Gisbert Jänicke

        Olof Lagercrantz hat das Wagnis unternommen. Dantes »Göttliche Komödie« in die Gegenwart zu stellen. Er betrachtet sie nicht als ein Denkmal der Vergangenheit, das dem historisch Interessierten zum Ausflugsziel werden kann, sondern als ein lebendiges Wortgewebe, das in diesem Augenblick existiert und in der Zeit ebenso gegenwärtig ist wie etwas, das heute geschieht.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        October 2009

        Dante and the Victorians

        by Alison Milbank

        In this ground-breaking book, Alison Milbank explains why a comprehension of the Victorian reception of Dante is essential for a full understanding of Victorianism as a whole. Her focus on this much-neglected topic allows her to reconfigure the British nineteenth-century understanding of history, nationalism, aesthetics and gender, and their often strange intersections. The account also builds towards a demonstration that the modernist perpetuation of the Dante obsession reveals an equal continuity with many aspects of Victorianism. The book provides not only an authoritative introduction to these important cultural themes, but also a re-reading of the genealogy of literature in the modern period. Instead of the Victorian realism challenged by Modernist symbolism's attempts to transcend linear time, Milbank offers us a contrary, continuous 'Danteism'. For both the Victorians and the Modernists Dante is the first writer to historicise, fictionalise and humanise the eternal role, and he becomes paradoxically the means by which history, secularised fiction and a positivist humanism could be reconnected to a lost transcendent. Dante and the Victorians provides the first comprehensive account of why the reading of Dante was central to nineteenth-century British language and culture. ;

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        June 2024

        Dante beyond influence

        by Federica Coluzzi

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        October 2011

        Die Göttliche Komödie

        by Dante Alighieri, Friedrich Freiherr Falkenhausen, Manfred Hardt

        Mit Vergil durchwandert Dante die Hölle und das Fegefeuer. Mit Beatrice durchfliegt er die Himmel des Paradieses. Dieser Weg durch die Trichter der Hölle bis zum Höchsten des Himmels – unüberbotene Horrorvision und unendlicher Traum vom Glück – ist eines der lustvollsten Leseabenteuer der abendländischen Dichtkunst. Dante schuf mit der »Divina Commedia« »eines der paar großen Jahrtausendbücher der Menschheit« (Hermann Hesse).

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        November 2014

        Die Göttliche Komödie

        by Dante Alighieri, Friedrich Freiherr von Falkenhausen, Manfred Hardt

        Mit Vergil durchwandert Dante die Hölle und das Fegefeuer. Mit Beatrice durchfliegt er die Himmel des Paradieses. Dieser Weg durch die Trichter der Hölle bis zum Höchsten des Himmels – unüberbotene Horrorvision und unendlicher Traum vom Glück – ist eines der lustvollsten Leseabenteuer der abendländischen Dichtkunst. Dante schuf mit der »Divina Commedia« »eines der paar großen Jahrtausendbücher der Menschheit« (Hermann Hesse).

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        December 2008

        Die Göttliche Komödie

        by Dante, Friedrich Freiherr Falkenhausen, Manfred Hardt

        Mit Vergil durchwandert Dante die Hölle und das Fegefeuer. Mit Beatrice durchfliegt er die Himmel des Paradieses. Dieser Weg durch die Trichter der Hölle bis zum Höchsten des Himmels – unüberbotene Horrorvision und unendlicher Traum vom Glück – ist eines der lustvollsten Leseabenteuer der abendländischen Dichtkunst. Dante schuf mit der »Divina Commedia« »eines der paar großen Jahrtausendbücher der Menschheit« (Hermann Hesse).

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        June 2000

        Dante und der Hummer

        Gesammelte Prosa

        by Samuel Beckett, Erika Tophoven, Elmar Tophoven, Christian Enzensberger, Wolfgang Hildesheimer

        "Es beginnt mit einem Scherz. Im November 1930 stellt Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) den Romanisten des Trinity College in Dublin einen Dichter namens Jean du Chas vor, den es nicht gibt. Mit parodierter Bildungshuberei und selbstverliebten Formulierungskünsten, die durch Sarkasmus gesteigert und in Schach gehalten werden, weist dieser Text auf Becketts ersten, postum veröffentlichten Roman »Traum von mehr bis minder schönen Frauen« voraus, der 1932 in Paris entstand, sowie auf den Erzählzyklus »Mehr Prügel als Flügel« aus dem Jahr 1934 (aus dem zwei Erzählungen aufgenommen wurden). Am Schluß der chronologisch nach dem Zeitpunkt des Entstehens geordneten Sammlung steht Immer noch nicht mehr, des Autors letzter Prosatext, geschrieben zwischen 1986 und 1988: fast Szene in der Reduziertheit des Raums und der Bewegungen; fast Gedicht in seinem Kreisen, Variieren, Wiederholen. »Eines Nachts als er den Kopf auf den Händen am Tisch saß sah er sich aufstehen und gehen.« Dante und der Hummer (so heißt die erste Erzählung aus Mehr Prügel als Flügel) macht alles, was in den Werken, in Einzelausgaben und sonst verstreut von Becketts kürzerer erzählender Prosa auf deutsch erschienen ist, zum ersten Mal in einem Band verfügbar -dazu drei kleine deutsche Erstveröffentlichungen: »Das Bild«, »weder noch« und »Wie soll man sagen«."

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        June 2024

        The poems of Elizabeth Siddal in context

        by Anne Woolley

        A ground breaking new book that considers all Siddal poems with reference to female and primarily male counterparts, adding substantially to knowledge of her work as a writer, and their shared contemporary concerns. Dante Rossetti, Swinburne, Tennyson, Ruskin and Keats were either known to her or a source of influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with which she was associated, and certain of their texts are compared with hers to discuss interplay between erotic and spiritual love, the ballad tradition, nineteenth-century feminism, and the Romantic concept of the conjoined physical and spectral body. Siddal's artwork is used to introduce each chapter, while other Pre-Raphaelite paintings illuminate the texts and further the inter-disciplinary philosophy of the Brotherhood. This important and stimulating book focuses on the intrinsic merit of Siddal's poetics whilst advocating a research method that could have multiple applications elsewhere.

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        Children's & YA
        June 2019

        Die Unausstehlichen & ich - Das Leben ist ein Rechenfehler (Band 1)

        by Walder, Vanessa / Korthues, Barbara

        The Unbearables & Me – Life‘s an Error in Calculation (Vol. 1)   A rebellious young girl who has seen it allAn isolated boarding school in the mountains with a dark secret5 particular friends One shared plan to escape …   - A defense apology, written as a report using swear words (crossed out) - absolutely authentic and touching, yet funny! - A first-person narrative in report style about an unusual topic that will get under your skin! - Illustrated in b/w (20%)     Together, we’re unbearable… Eleven-year-old foster kid Enni gets transferred to a secluded, damn boring boarding school and soon stumbles across secrets, involving the entire staff and somehow revolving around twelve-year-old Dante and a long forgotten accident.

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        1994

        Dante

        Eine Biographie

        by Altomonte, Antonio

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        February 2021

        Die Unausstehlichen & ich - Die Welt ist voller Wunder

        by Walder, V.

        The Unbearables & Me – A World Full of Wonders (Vol. 3)   Life Saaks – well it depends on what you make out of it     • A narrative that will get under your skin! • A new secret to be discovered in every volume • Enni uses swear words and crosses them out - absolutely authentic, yet funny! • For boys and girls! • By an international film professional and best-selling author from Austria (translation grant guaranteed!)     What happens in Volume 3: Enni feels at home at Saaks luxury boarding school for the first time in years. She has found real joy in the other “Unbearables", has good teachers and her own room. . . For her, Saaks might as well keep it’s secrets. Only they're connected to Dante and his family. When Dante asks Enni for help, she doesn't hesitate and comes up with a daring plan: to find out more, they must go to Munich, where the foundation that pays Enni and Dante's tuition is located. So they get their teacher to take them to the upcoming theatre festival in Munich. Once again, it's the kids' supposed handicaps that help them win. And so Dante and Enni, after fleeing from their watchmen and a breathtaking chase, are finally sitting in front of the people who have all the answers: the firm’s employees. But instead of revealing who they work for, who Dante’s father is, and who pays for Enni and Dante’s school fees, they tell Dante what Enni has kept secret from everyone: she will leave Saaks and move back to her mother. After the first shock, the friends react understandingly and are happy for Enni. But during the play, Enni still meets Dante’s mysterious father, who turns out to be something completely unexpected. He makes Enni realize that this school is a great opportunity for her and that after years of being a lone wolf, she can ask her parents to be there for her for once. So Enni has to decide whether to ask her father to let her stay in Saaks. But then she has to tell him the whole story…

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