Modern Lovers: Evanescence and the Act in Dante, Arnaut, and Sordello

Content Provider	Scilit
Author	Burgwinkle, Bill
Copyright Year	2017
Description	The question of Dante's notion of desire can only really be approached at a bias: firstly, because he tells us so much and yet so little about his own erotic history; and because what he does tell us comes almost always filtered through the figure of Beatrice and his imaginary relations with her. Beatrice, the purported object of desire in life, becomes in Dante's retrospective and touched-up vision: an inspiration, a bait, a mask, a pair of spectacles, a view-scope, an illusion, a holograph, a film image, a mother, a child, a nurse, a visionary, a fortune teller, a knight, a protector, and possibly even a father. The fantasy that structures the Commedia is the fantasy of the post-evental convert whose body, leads him to vacate the interior space of consciousness to become instead a body of pure surface, a receptor of the waves of love that emanate from the material of creation. Book Name: Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages
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Ending Page	28
Page Count	15
Starting Page	14
DOI	10.4324/9781315094946-2
Language	English
Publisher	Informa UK Limited
Publisher Date	2017-07-05
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Book Name: Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages Cultural Studies Literary Theory and Criticism Dante's Structures Fantasy Beatrice Convert Retrospective Commedia Holograph
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Chapter