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This book offers a collection of South African university students’ written responses to the Commedia and scholars’ commentary on them. The students’ collection includes writings of all genres and subjects: prose, poetry, personal reflection, dialogue, non-fiction based on the first two cantiche of the Commedia. Some are autobiographical and others are fictional stories, but they all have in common a very personal (and South African) approach to Dante’s text. The scholarly essays of the second part are concerned with the unusual way in which Dante is appreciated by our youth: not as a remote figure only encountered in the hallways of the literature department, but as an intimate presence, a guide, a friend whose language is familiar and invites a response.
Author(s): Medugno M
Editor(s): S. Fanucchi, A. Virga
Publication type: Book Chapter
Publication status: Published
Book Title: A South African Convivio with Dante: Born Frees’ Interpretations of the Commedia
Year: 2021
Pages: 131-143
Online publication date: 06/09/2021
Acceptance date: 06/09/2021
Series Title: Studi e saggi
Publisher: Firenze University Press
Place Published: Firenze
URL: https://doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-458-8.08
DOI: 10.36253/978-88-5518-458-8.08
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9788855184588