TY - BOOK ID - 125897424 TI - Dante alive : essays on a cultural icon AU - Ciabattoni, Francesco AU - Marchesi, Simone AU - Come l'uom s'etterna (Conference) PY - 2023 SN - 9780367473693 9781032346083 PB - New York, NY : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Dante Alighieri, KW - Appreciation KW - Influence UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:125897424 AB - "The essays collected here join in, and contribute to, the current reflection on Dante's vitality today in a critical, multidisciplinary vein. Their intervention comes at a particularly sensitive juncture in the history of Dante's global reception and cultural reuse. Dante today is as alive as ever. A cultural icon no less than a cultural product, Dante's imaginative universe enjoys a pervasive presence in popular culture. The multiformity of approaches represented in the collection matches the variety of the material that is analyzed. The volume documents Dante's presence in genres as different as graphic novels and theater productions, children's literature, advertisements and sci-fi narratives, rock and rap music, video- and boardgames, satirical vignettes and political speeches, school curricula and prison-teaching initiatives. Each essay combines a focused attention to the specificity of the body of evidence it treats with best analytical practices. The volume invites collective reflection on the many different rules of engagement with Dante's text"-- ER -