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Dante in Purgatory. States of Affect.
Turnhout, Brepols, 2010 Hardback, original editor's jacket, english, italian, IX+292 pp., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503531298.
Disputatio DISPUT 18. This volume provides an advanced survey of Dante studies and offers a new, detailed, and accessible reading of his Purgatorio, making this very rich text freshly available to an English-speaking readership. Through analysis of a variety of emotional states across Dante?s three major works - the Purgatorio, Inferno, and Paradiso, and in his minor works, such as the Rime and the Convivio - Dante in Purgatory: States of Affect contends that emotions are historically constructed at different moments. To historicize emotion thus requires that the ?human? becomes increasingly defined, as the subject is ascribed further interior qualities which must be named. Dante in Purgatory is thus relevant not only to readers of Dante, but also to any reader interested in thinking about emotion and affectual states and how these can be described, and how they can be conceptualized.
