Dante's Comedy and the Commentary Tradition (IT0027)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 10 ? Acronym : LLC-4-IT0027

This course makes use the electronic database of Dante commentaries at the Dartmouth Dante Project (http://dante.dartmouth.edu/) to examine the changes in expository practice and critical development surrounding a text which has had a seven-hundred year continuous tradition of exegesis. The taught part of the course will look at key evolutions in this tradition, comparing them to analogous developments surrounding other canonic texts, whilst the student contribution will be in the form of a chronological and analytical review of approaches to a specific critical locus chosen by the individual candidate. Full technical and conceptual use will be made of the search capabilities of the textual database.

? Keywords : History of criticism; paratext; medieval Italian literature; textual databases.

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

European Languages and Cultures - Italian, (School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, Schedule G)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 4th year

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 11 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

Familiarity with the dynamics of complex interdependent scholarly traditions; confidence in the manipulation of large-scale textual data; the ability to create independently produced models of chronological and ideological development in literary scholarship.