Poetics of Redemption

Poetics of RedemptionThe essays on Dante collected in this volume interpret his Commedia as the attempt of a renewal of the Christian work of salvation by means of literature. In the view of his author, the sacro poema responds to a historical moment of extreme danger, in which nothing less than the redemption of mankind is at stake. The degradation of the medieval Roman Empire and the rise of an early capitalism in his birth town Florence, entailing a pernicious moral

The second edition of this collection of 13 original papers contains an updated introductory section detailing the significance that the original articles published in 1992 have for the further development of research into linguistic politeness into the 21st century

Having observed the rise of giant monopolistic (or oligopolistic)

the assertion of privilege in the face of increasing social mobility

Environmental change is marked in square kilometers or micrometers

it examines new relationships and tensions that emerged as the Jewish radicals worked to forge multiracial coalitions in the workplace and the community

women's reproductive lives are aggressively regulated by law and medicine

analyzing the theology and biblical interpretation that were so central to the group's functioning

aspect and modality is part of virtually all sentences

Is the reporting of medical errors changing

Philip Lamantia (1927-2005) played a major role in shaping the poetics of both the Beat and the Surrealist movements in the United States

staging street protests that eventually marshaled international support

Los Angeles came of age in the 1920s