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    Dante's Vision and the Circle of Knowledge

    By Giuseppe Mazzotta

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    In a masterly synthesis of historical and literary analysis, Giuseppe Mazzotta shows how medieval knowledge systems--the cycle of the liberal arts, ethics, politics, and theology--interacted with poetry and elevated the Divine Comedy to a central position in shaping all other forms of discursive knowledge. To trace the circle of Dante's intellectual concerns, Mazzotta examines the structure and aims of medieval encyclopedias, especially in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries; the medieval classification of knowledge; the battle of the arts; the role of the imagination; the tension between knowledge and vision; and Dante's theological speculations in his constitution of what Mazzotta calls aesthetic, ludic theology. As a poet, Dante puts himself at the center of intellectual debates of his time and radically redefines their configuration. In this book, Mazzotta offers powerful new readings of a poet who stands amid his culture's crisis and fragmentation, one who responds to and counters them in his work. In a critical gesture that enacts Dante's own insight, Mazzotta's practice is also a fresh contribution to the theoretical literary debates of the present.

    Originally published in 1992.

    The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPrinceton University Press
    Release dateJul 14, 2014
    ISBN9781400863044
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      I'm torn on this one. "Loose Girl" was a quick and engaging read, and an interesting memoir, but, after having read the description on the back, it was different than I had expected. Yes, Kerry, was a troubled girl, and yes, she was promiscuous, but I do not believe that she was suffering from sexual addiction. She made poor decisions with regards to sex, and she searched for love and attention in the wrong places, but all of these disfunctional activities are common in adolescent and young women, especially those with abandonment issues similar to those Kerry struggled with. The destructive cycle continued until Kerry realized that love and sex are two completely different things, that occasionally, if one is lucky, overlap from time to time. I recognize many of Kerry's qualities in most of the women I know, which brought the narrative close to home, but it also resulted in my increased skepticism of her affliction. Missing from the book is a detailed account of her catharsis; her "recovery" is tacked onto the end in the last five pages, which amounts to an unsatisfying ending.