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Dante, Artist of Gesture
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Pages: 209
Authors: Heather Webb
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-09-29 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Dante, Artist of Gesture proposes a visual technique for reading Dante's Comedy, suggesting that the reader engages with Dante's striking images of souls as if
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Language: en
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Authors: Heather Webb
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-09-05 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Dante, Artist of Gesture proposes a visual technique for reading Dante's Comedy, suggesting that the reader engages with Dante's striking images of souls as if
Dante's Performance
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Authors: Francesco Ciabattoni
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-08-05 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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Through an historical and philological lens, this book explores passages from Dante's Commedia which reveal elements inspired byprocessions, pageants, liturgica
Dante's Persons
Language: en
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Authors: Heather Webb
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Dante's Persons explores the concept of personhood as it appears in Dante's Commedia and seeks out the constituent ethical modes that the poem presents as neces
Gestures and Looks in Medieval Narrative
Language: en
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Authors: J. A. Burrow
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-08-08 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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In medieval society, gestures and speaking looks played an even more important part in public and private exchanges than they do today. Gestures meant more than