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In this book Christian Moevs offers the first sustained treatment of the metaphysical picture that grounds and motivates the Comedy , and of the relation between those metaphysics and Dante's poetics. Moevs argues that for Dante--in radical divergence from the modern view--the world of space and time is not self-subsistent, but a projection or creation of conscious being, which can only be known as oneself. Armed with this new understanding, Moevs is able to shed light on a series of perennial issues in the interpretation ...

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The Metaphysics of Dante's Comedy 2008, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780195372588

Trade paperback

The Metaphysics of Dante's Comedy 2005, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195174618

Hardcover