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Dante’s Plurilingualism

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Dante's conception of language is encompassed in all his works and can be understood in terms of a strenuous defence of the volgare in tension with the prestige of Latin. By bringing together different approaches, from literary studies to philosophy and history, from aesthetics to queer studies, from psychoanalysis to linguistics, this volume offers new critical insights on the question of Dante's language, engaging with both the philosophical works characterized by an original project of vulgarization, and the poetic works, which perform a new language in an innovative and self-reflexive way. In particular, "Dante's Plurilingualism" explores the rich and complex way in which Dante's linguistic theory and praxis both informs and reflects an original configuration of the relationship between authority, knowledge and identity that continues to be fascinated by an ideal of unity but is also imbued with a strong element of subjectivity and opens up towards multiplicity and modernity.

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hal-03787307 , version 1 (24-09-2022)

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Manuele Gragnolati (Dir.). Dante’s Plurilingualism: Authority, Knowledge, Subjectivity. Manuele Gragnolati, Sara Fortuna, and Jürgen Trabant. 2010. ⟨hal-03787307⟩
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