By Daniela Caselli
This booklet is the 1st research in English at the literary dating among Beckett and Dante. it really is an leading edge analyzing of Samuel Beckett and Dante's works and a severe engagement with modern theories of intertextuality.
The quantity translates Dante within the unique Italian (as it seems that in Beckett), translating into English all Italian quotations. It merits from a multilingual method in keeping with Beckett's released works in English and French, and on manuscripts (which use English, French, German and Italian).
The ebook is geared toward the scholarly groups drawn to literatures in English, literary and significant thought, comparative literature and conception, French literature and thought and Italian stories. Its jargon-free kind also will allure third-year or complicated undergraduate scholars, and postgraduate scholars, in addition to these readers attracted to the weird courting among one of many maximum writers of the 20 th century and the medieval writer who stands for the very proposal of the Western canon.
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