Nel mezzo: Roland Barthes's Mediated Dante and Dantean Figures of Mediation.

In this essay, I consider the reception of Dante by the twentieth-century French theorist and writer Roland Barthes. Barthes did not otherwise evince much interest in Italian literature, in poetry, nor indeed in the Middle Ages. Dante is therefore exceptional in Barthes's writings, and present parti...

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Publicado en:Italian Studies Vol. 77; no. 2; pp. 135 - 146
Autor principal: Rushworth, Jennifer
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd May2022
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