Beatrice and Virgil
Publisher: Canongate Books
With all the spirit and orginality that made Life of Pi so treasured, this brilliant new novel takes the reader on a haunting odyssey.
Publisher: Canongate Books
Publisher: Canongate Books
Dante
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
... Virgil , Beatrice addresses him : " O anima cortese mantovana , di cui la fama ancor nel mondo dura , / e durerà quanto ' l mondo lontana " ( Inf . 2.58-60 ) . After this appeal to Virgil's courtesy , she refers to Dante as " l'amico ...
Prizing Literature
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
... Beatrice and Virgil's concerns with morality and representation. Readers who recoil from Beatrice and Virgil indicate that Life ofPi's pleasures lie in its 'boy's own story' elements, rather than those aspects of the text – its ...
Animal Writing
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
... Beatrice and Virgil in which 'Martel present[s] readers with horrific subject matter through story animals'.72 Peterson's dogged insistence – like that of Martel in interviews following the uproar at the novel's publication – on a tidy ...
Dante and Derrida
Publisher: State University of New York Press
... Virgil's authority and rewrites its figure, inscribing it here into his own beginning, recasting Virgil as himself in a reenvisioning of the origi- nal dream of the Vita nuova. Virgil responds to Beatrice's solicitation as the poet ...
Psychoanalysis and Ethics
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
... Virgil the guide of Dante (the protagonist) right up to the top of Purgatory ... Beatrice in 1290, when he was 25, he was suddenly attracted to a “young and ... Beatrice as the supreme object of his love. In a later prose-work, the ...
A Reading of Dante's Inferno
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
... Beatrice had been the most closely related to Dante in the human sense , so she is the most active character in the opening of the Commedia in coming to Virgil in the periphery of Hell and soliciting his help . After explaining to Virgil ...
The Tragic and the Sublime in Medieval Literature
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
... Beatrice is now distant from a Dante who has pronounced a valediction towards her and while Bernard is only an ... Virgil reveals why he has come to save him . In the course of this explanation ( 52–120 ) we learn that it was Mary herself who ...
Dante
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
... Virgil and Beatrice. Of Virgil, and the unique position assigned to him in the Middle Ages, it is impossible here to speak at length. Almost from the first publication of the Æneid, and down to the time when the revival of learning ...
Seeing Through the Veil
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
... Beatrice dis-informed him, that is, she removed an idea (literally, a form) from his intellect; similarly, the sun ... Virgil tells Dante how he was sent to lead him on his journey: a 'gracious lady,' whom the reader will recognize as Mary, ...
