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This book investigates the place of error in the moral and aesthetic system of Dante's Comedy. It argues that his delight in finely wrought patterns does not exclude an interest in patterns of disorder, that his pursuit of harmony intensifies his interest in dissonance. The three central chapters of the book each examine a different type of error or anomaly: a mismeasured giant, a self-defeating experiment, an erring citation of Virgil. This account of Dante gives priority to wit and self-irony rather than didactic seriousness.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Mismapping the Underworld
• Subtitle: Daring and Error in Dante's 'Comedy'
• Author: John Kleiner
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 200
• EAN: 9780804721431
• ISBN: 0804721432
• ID: 04716164
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 390 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. May 1994

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