The essays collected here join in, and contribute to, the current reflection on Dante’s vitality today in a critical, multidisciplinary vein. Their intervention comes at a particularly sensitive juncture in the history of Dante’s global reception and cultural reuse. Dante today is as alive as ever. A cultural icon no less than a cultural product, Dante’s imaginative universe enjoys a pervasive presence in popular culture. The multiformity of approaches represented in the collection matches the variety of the material that is analyzed. The volume documents Dante’s presence in genres as different as graphic novels and theater productions, children’s literature, advertisements and sci-fi narratives, rock and rap music, video- and boardgames, satirical vignettes and political speeches, school curricula and prison-teaching initiatives. Each essay combines a focused attention to the specificity of the body of evidence it treats with best analytical practices. The volume invites collective reflection on the many different rules of engagement with Dante’s text
Author(s): Francesco Ciabattoni, Simone Marchesi
Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 375
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1 Visuality
Chapter 1 Doré’s Dante: Influence, Transformation, and Reinvention
Chapter 2 Dante’s Comedy and Comics
Chapter 3 Dante and Contemporary African Art
Chapter 4 “A Form in Time”: Reflections on Illustrating Dante’s Comedy in the Twenty-First Century
Part 2 Multimediality
Chapter 5 Hip-Hop, Rock, and Heavy Metal Dante
Chapter 6 Dante: Cinema and Television
Chapter 6 Dante: Cinema and Television
Chapter 7 Dante on Stage
Chapter 8 Dante in American Science Fiction
Part 3 Market Availability
Chapter 9 Dante and the Divine Comedy for Children and Young Adults: Medievalism and the Young Reader
Chapter 10 “De vulgari ‘ludo-quentia’”: Dante, Games, and Pop Culture
Chapter 11 The Hell Franchise: Dante’s Commedia in American Marketing
Chapter 12 Benigni’s Dante: From the Piazza to the Quirinale
Part 4 Versatility
Chapter 13 Sing Sing to Sollicciano: Reimagining Dante’s Justice behind Bars
Chapter 14 Hell on Earth: Dante in Political Circles
Chapter 15 The Icon, the Exile: Dante and Contemporary Italian Street Art
Chapter 16 Dante in Italian Secondary School
Part 5 Liminality
Chapter 17 Stripping Dante: Emilio Giannelli in the Corriere della Sera
Works and Materials Cited
Bibliography
Index
