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Feasting with panthers"
| Title: | " Feasting with panthers": unstable sexual identity and the pedagogic Eros in the Divine Comedy. |
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| Name(s): |
Morris, Albert. Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters Department of English |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation | |
| Date Issued: | 2012 | |
| Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
| Physical Form: | electronic | |
| Extent: | vi, 64 p. | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Summary: | The purpose of this study is to analyze the problem posed by homosexuality in Dante's Commedia. I look at several topics and questions : A) What are the implications of homosexuality in regards to both justice in the polis and to divine justice in the next world? B) What are the poetics of queer variance? C) What are the oedipal issues surrounding the Dantean father-figures VIrgil, Brunetto Latini, and other males? D) What is the role of the pedagogic Eros in promoting a strong national bond and social ethos? E) Where does Dante situate "sodomites" (and, by extension, what role does desire play) in the schemata of Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso, and why is this important? All of these questions are interrelated and have a bearing on Dante's notion of the good society and divine justice. | |
| Identifier: | 830845933 (oclc), 3358756 (digitool), FADT3358756 (IID), fau:4041 (fedora) | |
| Note(s): |
by Albert Morris. Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2012. Includes bibliography. Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Adobe Reader. |
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| Subject(s): |
Dante, Alighieri, 1265-1321 Homosexuliaty -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 Love in literature -- Criticism and interpretation Desire in literature -- Criticism and interpretation Mind and body in literature |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3358756 | |
| Use and Reproduction: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
