Christopher
Kleinhenz
ckleinhe@wisc.edu
| Office: 608 Van Hise Hall (262-5816) | web site for Literature in Translation course: http://frit.lss.wisc.edu/lt253 |
Texts (required) | Calendar
|
Requirements
| Grade Composition | Grading
Scale |
Dante Sites on the Web | Images
shown in Class | Suggested Supplementary Readings
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, trans. Allen Mandelbaum (Bantam Books), 3 vols.: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
Sept.
6: Introduction. Italy and Florence in the Age of Dante
11:
Inferno 1
18:
Inferno 5
25:
Inferno 10-11
Oct.2:
Inferno 14-15
9:
Inferno 21-23
16:
Inferno 28-30
23:
Purgatory1-2
30:
Purgatory 9-10
6:
Purgatory 13-15
13:
Purgatory 21-22
20:
Purgatory 29-30
Thanksgiving
Recess
11:
Paradise 21-26
Tuesday,
Dec. 19: Final Paper Due, 12:25 p.m.
1.
Three Hour Examinations (September 29, November 3, and December 1)
2.
Final Paper Due: 12:25 p.m., Tuesday, December 19. The topic will be distributed
on November 29.
3.
Short (one-page) writing assignments (6-7) either in-class or take-home
(no late submissions)
The
class will be a combination of lectures and discussions. In the course
of the semester we will read the entire Divine Comedy, and even
though we may not be able to discuss each and every canto in class, you
are responsible for the entire work for the writing assignments, the final
paper, and the hour examinations.
Suggested
supplementary readings
On-line Readings
Teodolinda Barolini, "Dante and the lyric past" http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu/books/cambr_com/cc2.html
Joan Ferrante, "A poetics of chaos and harmony" http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu/books/cambr_com/cc10.html
Electronic Reserves (Login to My UW-Madison at http://my.wisc.edu/
using your campus NetID and password.
1. “Life of Dante,” Giuseppe Mazzotta, in: R. Jacoff, ed., The Cambridge
companion to Dante, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1993.
2. “The vita nuova,” Thomas G. Bergin, in: Dante, Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, Co., 1965.
3. “Convivo,” Paget Toynbee, in: Dante Alighieri: His life his works,
NY: Harper Torchbooks, 1965.
4. “De monarchia & De vulgari eloquentia,” Paget Toynbee, in:
Dante Alighieri: His life his works, NY: Harper Torchbooks, 1965.
More
supplementary readings
Primary
works:
Dante's
minor works (Vita Nuova, Rime, Convivio,
Monarchia,
De
Vulgari Eloquentia, Epistles)
Secondary
works:
William
Anderson, Dante the Maker
Sites
in English
http://www.the-orb.net/encyclop/culture/lit/italian/danindex.html
[Dante Alighieri: a guide to online resources: a good starting place for
access to other sites]
http://members.aol.com/lieberk/welcome.html
[Otfried Lieberknecht's Home Page for Dante Studies; general resources
for the Middle Ages]
http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu/new/
[Digital Dante Project, Columbia University; general Dante materials]
http://www.dantesociety.org/index.html
[Dante Society of America web page with links to EBDSA and the American
Bibliography]
http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/
[Very fine site for the Comedy with images and commentary]
http://www.princeton.edu/pdp
[Very good. Contains electronic versions of all Dante's works with English
translations and an archive of visual materials]
http://dante.Dartmouth.EDU
[Dartmouth Dante Project; excellent site for searchable medieval, Renaissance
and modern commentaries on the
Comedy]]
http://www.italnet.nd.edu//Dante/
[Renaissance Dante in Print, 1472-1629]
http://www.labyrinth.georgetown.edu
[Many valuable resources for the study of the Middle Ages, Georgetown U.]
http://www.greatdante.net/
[Dante Alighieri on the Web]
http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/dante/
[The World of Dante: Inferno; U. of Virginia]
http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/medieval/medieval.ebbs.html
[many web resources for the Middle Ages]
http://www.italianstudies.org/dante/
[SUNY-Stony Brook Dante site]
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/LD
[Lectura Dantis on line]
http://www.wisdomportal.com/Dante/DanteResources.html
[Dante Resources on the Internet]
Sites
in Italian
http://www.dantesca.it/
{Italian Dante Society site with links; English version available]
http://www.mediasoft.it/dante/
[Text of the Comedy and commentary]
Site
in Spanish
To view some of the images shown in class, click here: 1-219
(Inferno 1-3), 220-313
(Inferno 4-17), 314-721
(Inferno 18-34; Purgatory 1-33; Paradise 1-33), The
Celestial Rose
NOTES: Florence
, Dante's
minor works , Structure
of the Divine Comedy (1-4) , Convivio
(The Banquet) , Unam
Sanctam, Chronicle
of John Villani , Divine
Comedy (5-18) ,
Divine Comedy (19-34) , Purgatory
, Paradiso
8: Italy and Florence in the Age of Dante. Dante's Life and
Times
13:
Inferno 1-2
15:
Inferno 3-4
20:
Inferno 6-7
22:
Inferno 8-9
27:
Inferno 12-13
29:
First
Hour Exam
4:
Inferno 16-18
6:
Inferno 19-20
11:
Inferno 24-25
13:
Inferno 26-27
18:
Inferno 31-32
20:
Inferno 33-34
25:
Purgatory 3-5
27:
Purgatory 6-8
Nov.1:
Purgatory 11-12
3:
Second
Hour Exam
8:
Purgatory 16-18
10:
Purgatory 19-20
15:
Purgatory 23-25
17:
Purgatory 26-28
22:
Purgatory 31-33
27:
Paradise 1-5
29:
Paradise 6-10
Dec.1:
Third
Hour Exam
6:
Paradise 15-17
8:
Paradise 18-20
13:
Paradise 27-30
15:
Paradise 31-33
Click the tab labeled 'Academics' Look under 'Course Resources'
Click 'Library/Reserves' to access your library course materials.)
Virgil,
The
Aeneid
Ovid,
Metamorphoses
Boethius,
Consolation
of Philosophy
Erich
Auerbach, Dante: Poet of the Secular World
Teodolinda
Barolini, Dante's Poets and The Undivine Comedy
Thomas
G. Bergin, Dante
The
Cambridge Companion to Dante (ed. R. Jacoff)
Marc
Cogan, The Design in the Wax: The Structure of the Divine Comedy and
Its Meaning
Dante
and Modern American Criticism (Annali d'Italianistica, 8; ed.
Dino S. Cervigni)
Dante:
Contemporary Perspectives (ed. A. A. Iannucci)
Dante
for the New Millennium (ed. T. Barolini & W. Storey)
Dante
Now: Current Trends in Dante Studies (ed. T. J. Cachey, Jr.)
Dante's
Divine Comedy: Introductory Readings. 3 vols.
Inferno-Purgatorio-Paradiso
(ed. T. Wlassics)
Dante:
The Critical Complex, 8 vols. (ed. R. Lansing)
Joan
Ferrante, The Political Vision of the Divine Comedy
John
Freccero, Dante: The Poetics of Conversion
Robert
Hollander, Allegory in Dante's Commedia and Dante: A Life in
Works
Lectura
Dantis: Inferno. A Canto-by-Canto Commentary (ed. A. Mandelbaum et
al.)
Joseph
Anthony Mazzeo, Medieval Cultural Tradition in Dante's Comedy
Giuseppe
Mazzotta, Dante, Poet of the Desert and Dante's Vision and the
Circle of Knowledge
Helene
Nolthenius, Duecento: The Late Middle Ages in Italy
Ricardo
J. Quinones, Dante and Foundation Sacrifice in Dante's "Commedia"
Paul
G. Ruggiers, Florence in the Age of Dante
John
Scott, Dante's Political Purgatory and Understandting Dante
Charles
S. Singleton, Commedia: Elements of Structure and Journey to
Beatrice
Karl
Vossler, Mediaeval Culture: An Introduction to Dante and His Times
(2 vols.).
