{"title":"Comic Culture","authors":"F. Alfie","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198820741.013.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198820741.013.11","url":null,"abstract":"The comic pervaded the culture around Dante, offering him a model of literature that he explored throughout his life. For centuries, medieval literary theorists had defined literature as a subset of ethics, with tragic literature communicating the praise of the virtuous, and comic literature conveying the blame of the sinful. The definitions of comic and satiric literatures overlapped such that the two genres could not be fully distinguished from each other. Comic elements appear throughout Dante’s literature, from his lyric poems to the derision of the Italian dialects in De vulgari eloquentia. Nowhere is the influence of comic literature clearer than when dealing with his masterpiece, the Commedia. From the invectives in Inferno to the tirades against ecclesiastical corruption in Paradiso, the author of the Commedia is committed to decrying the flaws of the sinful.","PeriodicalId":344891,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Dante","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131270288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exile","authors":"J. Bartuschat","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198820741.013.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198820741.013.27","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines the way the poet represents his exile. It is composed of three parts: the first considers the way Dante handles his exile in relation to authorship, and reveals how he constructs his authority from his position as an exile in the Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia, and his Epistles. The second analyses exile as a major element of the autobiographical dimension of the Commedia. It shows that the necessity to grasp the moral lesson of the exile constitutes the very heart of the poem. The third part explores the relationship between exile and pilgrimage, the latter being, from the Vita Nuova onwards, a symbol of the human condition, and demonstrates how Dante interprets his experience both as an exile and as a wanderer in the other world in the light of pilgrimage.","PeriodicalId":344891,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Dante","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126700365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digital Dante","authors":"Akash Kumar","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198820741.013.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198820741.013.5","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter considers the intersection of Dante and digital humanities by means of historical perspective, a broad survey of the field as it has developed over the past few decades, and an extended look at recent trends in developing projects. Attention is given to how and why Dante has emerged as a particular point of contact between the digital and humanistic, as well as to issues of the canon that can be both reinforced by digital projects and subverted by drawing attention to other voices and works within the tradition. This chapter also provides an extended look from within at the recent development and elaboration of Columbia University’s Digital Dante, seeking to point the way to future work and new paradigms of digital exploration in the world of Dante.","PeriodicalId":344891,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Dante","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121680335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}