Dante Alive
(Englisch)
Essays on a Cultural Icon

Francesco Ciabattoni is Full Professor of Italian at Georgetown University.

Simone Marchesi is an Associate Professor of French and Italian at Princeton University.

• This volume collects original essays from a wide range of international scholars in the field of Dante Studies.
• All essays address the current persistence of Dante´s presence in contemporary popular culture.
• Studied fields are as varied as the visual arts, the music scene (independent as well as experimental rock and pop music), film, theater and television productions (both high-brow and commercial), the political rhetoric of American and European personalities, commercial advertisements, video- and boardgames.
• The volume offers a large number of previously unpublished illustrations reacting to the Divine Comedy.
• The collection expands the scope of previous scholarship on the topic and updates the critical approach. It balances cutting-edge scholarly research with helpful insights and tools for teaching Dante in a variety of contexts.
• All source material is made available in English translation.

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 chapter 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.

Table of Contents

Lists of figures

List of contributors

Acknowledgments

Editors´ Introduction (Francesco Ciabattoni & Simone Marchesi)
Part 1: Visuality.

1. Doré´s Dante: Influence, Transformation and Reinvention in Illustrations (Deborah Parker)
2. Dante´s Comedy and Comics (Marco Arnaudo)
3. Dante and Contemporary African Art (Franziska Meier)
4. Reflections on Illustrating Dante´s Comedy in the 21st Century (Mika Provata-Carlone)
   Part 2: Multimediality.
5. Hip-Hop, Rock, and Heavy Metal Dante (Francesco Ciabattoni)
6. Dante: Cinema and Television (Antonio Rossini)
7. Dante on Stage (Sara Fontana)
8. Dante in American Science Fiction (Arielle Saiber)

Part 3: Market Availability.

9. Dante and the Divine Comedy for Children and Young Adults: Medievalism and the Young Reader (Filippo Fonio)
10. "`De vulgari `ludo-quentia´": Dante, Games, and Pop Culture (Brandon Essary)
11. The Hell Franchise: Dante´s Comedy in American Marketing (Elizabeth Coggeshall)
12. Benigni´s Dante: From the Piazza to the Quirinale (Carmelo Galati)

Part 4: Versatility.

13. Sing Sing to Solliciano: Reimagining Dante´s Justice Behind Bars (Ron Jenkins)
14. Hell on Earth: Dante in Political Circles (Akash Kumar)
15. The Icon, the Exile: Dante and Contemporary Italian Street Art (Macs Smith)
16. Dante in Italian Secondary Schools (Natascia Tonelli)

Part 5: Liminality.

17. Stripping the Poem: Emilio Giannelli in the Corriere della Sera (Simone Marchesi)
    
18. General Bibliography
19. Index

Dante Alive documents the pervasive presence of Dante´s imaginary universe in popular culture today. These essays examines through a specific critical lens an area of Dante´s continued influence on various spheres of life. Artistic creation, political imagination, and commercial enterprise emerged as all marked by Dante´s seal

Über den Autor

Francesco Ciabattoni is Full Professor of Italian at Georgetown University.

Simone Marchesi is an Associate Professor of French and Italian at Princeton University.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

Lists of figures

List of contributors

Acknowledgments

Editors' Introduction (Francesco Ciabattoni & Simone Marchesi)
Part 1: Visuality.

1. Doré's Dante: Influence, Transformation and Reinvention in Illustrations (Deborah Parker)
2. Dante's Comedy and Comics (Marco Arnaudo)
3. Dante and Contemporary African Art (Franziska Meier)
4. Reflections on Illustrating Dante's Comedy in the 21st Century (Mika Provata-Carlone)
   Part 2: Multimediality.
5. Hip-Hop, Rock, and Heavy Metal Dante (Francesco Ciabattoni)
6. Dante: Cinema and Television (Antonio Rossini)
7. Dante on Stage (Sara Fontana)
8. Dante in American Science Fiction (Arielle Saiber)

Part 3: Market Availability.

9. Dante and the Divine Comedy for Children and Young Adults: Medievalism and the Young Reader (Filippo Fonio)
10. "'De vulgari 'ludo-quentia'": Dante, Games, and Pop Culture (Brandon Essary)
11. The Hell Franchise: Dante's Comedy in American Marketing (Elizabeth Coggeshall)
12. Benigni's Dante: From the Piazza to the Quirinale (Carmelo Galati)

Part 4: Versatility.

13. Sing Sing to Solliciano: Reimagining Dante's Justice Behind Bars (Ron Jenkins)
14. Hell on Earth: Dante in Political Circles (Akash Kumar)
15. The Icon, the Exile: Dante and Contemporary Italian Street Art (Macs Smith)
16. Dante in Italian Secondary Schools (Natascia Tonelli)

Part 5: Liminality.

17. Stripping the Poem: Emilio Giannelli in the Corriere della Sera (Simone Marchesi)
    
18. General Bibliography
19. Index

Klappentext

Dante Alive documents the pervasive presence of Dante's imaginary universe in popular culture today. These essays examines through a specific critical lens an area of Dante's continued influence on various spheres of life. Artistic creation, political imagination, and commercial enterprise emerged as all marked by Dante's seal