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Article: Dante's poetics of exile.(Critical essay)
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- Annali d'Italianistica
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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Focusing on Dante's oeuvre, for Guy P. Raffa, in his "Dante's Exile of Poetics," Dante's exile, figuring as both misfortune and opportunity, is arguably the most personal manifestation of the poet's dialectical imagination. This experience and conception of exile thus becomes the catalyst for Dante's dialectical hermeneutics ("both--and" instead of "either/or") and what most distinguishes the poet's hermeneutics from the Pauline-Augustinian model of conversion. To develop this argument? and to sharpen the distinction between "conversion" and "exile"--Raffa draws on Jakobson's distinction between metaphoric substitution, whereby the old life is eradicated for the new one; ...
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