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Modelling knowledge as revelation and theology as poetry, this powerful new reading of the Vita nuova not only challenges Dante scholars to reconsider the book's speculative emphases but also offers the general reader an accessible yet penetrating exploration of some of the Western tradition's most far-reaching ideas surrounding love and knowledge. Dante's 'little book', included in full here in an original parallel translation, captures in its first emergence the same revolutionary ferment that would later become manifest both in the larger oeuvre of this great European writer and in the literature of the entire Western canon. William Franke demonstrates how Dante's youthful poetic autobiography disrupts sectarian thinking and reconciles the seeming contraries of divine revelation and human invention, while also providing the means for understanding religious revelation in the Bible. Ultimately, this revolutionary unification of Scripture and poetry shows the intimate working of love at the source of inspired knowing.
Contents
1. Introduction: The Vita nuova as Theological Revelation through Lyrical Interpretation; 2. The New Testament Model of Salvific Reminiscence; 3. From Appearing and Imagining to Revealing through Interpreting: The Vita nuova's Hermeneutics of Witness; 4. Phenomenology versus Hermeneutics (Debate with Harrison): Revelation as Mediation; 5. History of Effect and a New Hermeneutics-Oriented Critical Paradigm; Picture Album; 6. Conclusion. The Existential Grounding of Revelation in Lyric; Coda; Epilogue: Dream Epistemology and Religious Revelation in Dante's Vita nuova; Appendix: Italian Text and English Translation of the Vita nuova.
