In Dante's Wake: Reading from Medieval to Modern in the Augustinian Tradition

by John Freccero

Book Overview

Waking to find himself shipwrecked on a strange shore before a dark wood, the pilgrim of the Divine Comedy realizes he must set his sights higher and guide his ship to a radically different port. Starting on the sand of that very shore with Dante, John Freccero begins retracing the famous voyage recounted by the poet nearly 700 years ago.

Freccero follows pilgrim and poet through the Comedy and then beyond, inviting readers both uninitiated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823264289
• ISBN13: 9780823264285
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"