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Dreaming again on things already dreamed : 500 years of Orlando Furioso (1516-2016)
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Dorigatti, Marco and Pavlova, Maria, eds. (2019) Dreaming again on things already dreamed : 500 years of Orlando Furioso (1516-2016). Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, New York, Wien: Peter Lang. ISBN 9781787079014
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/b11625
Abstract
The Argentinian poet Jorge Luis Borges, whose visionary poem «Ariosto y los árabes» inspired the title of this book, defined Ariosto’s Orlando furioso as a dream: a dream that grew out of the medieval legends of Charlemagne and King Arthur to conquer the entire western world and become a collective fantasy, a mirror onto which for centuries countless readers have reflected their own dreams and aspirations. That dream reached its 500th anniversary in 2016 and, to mark the occasion, a group of 14 scholars, comprising internationally acclaimed specialists as well as younger researchers, came together in Oxford to reflect on Ariosto in what would turn out to be a memorable meeting of minds. This book contains their thoughts and ideas, and above all their dialogue, offering fresh perspectives on one of the most enigmatic works of European, and – increasingly – world literature. Divided into three parts (Tradition; Interpretation; Reception), it aims to establish what Ariosto’s poem was in its own time, at key stages during its five-century history, and of course what it means today. In revisiting Ariosto’s dream, it tries to answer the question: is it still alive? Show Less
Item Type: | Book | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > Italian Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures |
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Publisher: | Peter Lang | ||||
Place of Publication: | Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, New York, Wien | ||||
ISBN: | 9781787079014 | ||||
Book Title: | «Dreaming again on things already dreamed» | ||||
Editor: | Dorigatti, Marco and Pavlova, Maria | ||||
Official Date: | 2019 | ||||
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Number of Pages: | 350 | ||||
DOI: | 10.3726/b11625 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
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