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Nicolò Crisafi
Manuele Gragnolati

Weathering the Afterlife

The Meteorological Psychology of Dante’s Commedia
In: Weathering: Ecologies of Exposure, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Arnd Wedemeyer, Cultural Inquiry, 17 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2020), pp. 63–91
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The essay investigates the meteorological phenomena represented in Dante Alighieri’s Commedia and their interrelation with the subjectivity of the dead in Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. Examining how the dead weather the afterlife and how the elements affect them, in turn, the essay takes the complex enantiosemy of the word ‘weathering’ as a conceptual guiding thread for the exploration of dynamics of exposure (Inferno), vulnerability (Purgatorio), and receptivity (Paradiso).
Part of Weathering Containing:
Preface / Arnd Wedemeyer, Christoph F. E. Holzhey
Weathering Ambivalences / Christoph F. E. Holzhey
Radiating Exposures / Alison Sperling
Weathering the Afterlife
Scaling from Weather to Climate / Daniel Liu
Enduring Ornament / Amelia Groom, M. Ty
The Weathering of the Trace / Damiano Sacco
Glaze / Umut Yıldırım
Weathering Weather / Yolanda Ariadne Collins
‘Locked out in nature’ / Anja Sunhyun Michaelsen
On Bad Weather / Facundo Vega
Representing the World, Weathering its End / Marlon Miguel
Enduring Rain / Claudia Peppel
Life Never Stops Being Violent / Vajiko Chachkhiani, Claudia Peppel
Confined Weathers / Delfina Cabrera
Title
Weathering the Afterlife
Subtitle
The Meteorological Psychology of Dante’s Commedia
Author(s)
Nicolò Crisafi
Manuele Gragnolati
Identifier
https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-17_04
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The essay investigates the meteorological phenomena represented in Dante Alighieri’s Commedia and their interrelation with the subjectivity of the dead in Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. Examining how the dead weather the afterlife and how the elements affect them, in turn, the essay takes the complex enantiosemy of the word ‘weathering’ as a conceptual guiding thread for the exploration of dynamics of exposure (Inferno), vulnerability (Purgatorio), and receptivity (Paradiso).
Is Part Of
Weathering
Place
Berlin
Publisher
ICI Berlin Press
Date
2020
Subject
Commedia
Dante Alighieri
Enantiosemy
Exposure
Meteorology
Receptivity
Vulnerability.
Rights
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yes
Language
en-GB
short title
Weathering the Afterlife
page start
63
page end
91
Source
Weathering: Ecologies of Exposure, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Arnd Wedemeyer, Cultural Inquiry, 17 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2020), pp. 63–91
Bibliographic Citation
Nicolò Crisafi and Manuele Gragnolati, ‘Weathering the Afterlife: The Meteorological Psychology of Dante’s Commedia’, in Weathering: Ecologies of Exposure, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Arnd Wedemeyer, Cultural Inquiry, 17 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2020), pp. 63–91 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-17_04>
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