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Dante’s prayer­ful pil­grim­age: Typolo­gies of prayer in the ‚Com­e­dy’
In Dante’s Prayer­ful Pil­grim­age Alessan­dro Vet­tori pro­vides a com­pre­hen­sive analy­sis of prayer in Dante’s Com­me­dia. The under­ly­ing the­sis con­sid­ers prayer a metaphor­i­cal pil­grim­age toward a sacred loca­tion and con­nects it with the pilgrim’s ascent to the vision of the Trin­i­ty. Prayer is move­ment in Pur­ga­to­rio and also in Par­adiso, while eter­nal sta­sis is the penal­ty of blas­phe­mous souls in Infer­no. In the fic­tion­al ren­di­tion of the poem, the pilgrim’s itin­er­ary becomes a spec­u­lar reflec­tion of Dante’s own exil­ic expe­ri­ence. Prayer’s human-divine inter­ac­tion affords the poet the nec­es­sary escape from the over­whelm­ing sense of fail­ure in pol­i­tics and love. Whether it is peti­tion­al, litur­gi­cal, thank­ful, praise­ful, or con­tem­pla­tive, prayer express­es the supplicant’s wish to trans­form real­i­ty and attain a supe­ri­or spir­i­tu­al sta­tus.
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Decon­struct­ing the mod­el in 20th and 21st-cen­tu­ry Ital­ian exper­i­men­tal writ­ings
Through a series of orig­i­nal analy­ses of exper­i­men­tal works that exist well out­side of the estab­lished ter­ri­to­ry inhab­it­ed by the Ital­ian lit­er­ary canon, or which pur­pose­ly posi­tion them­selves at its mar­gins, this vol­ume pro­pos­es a new way to under­stand the goals of lit­er­ary exper­i­men­ta­tion as a means to break the canon and give lit­er­a­ture the same free­dom that is eas­i­ly grant­ed to oth­er arts. This serves to allow lit­er­a­ture itself to inter­sect with those oth­er art forms, while enhanc­ing the pow­er­ful and pos­i­tive out­comes of lit­er­ary exper­i­men­ta­tion. Specif­i­cal­ly, the vol­ume explores a series of 20th- and 21st-cen­tu­ry Ital­ian works that are char­ac­ter­ized by a non-nor­ma­tive approach to lan­guage or the act of writ­ing itself. The con­trib­u­tors, while address­ing diverse writ­ers, and often even adopt­ing dif­fer­ent the­o­ret­i­cal inter­pre­ta­tions of exper­i­men­tal­ism itself, all ana­lyze the inter­sec­tion between exper­i­men­tal lit­er­a­tures and oth­er art forms, as well as cross-dis­ci­pli­nary and non-tra­di­tion­al approach­es to the theme of exper­i­men­ta­tion.
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