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Nicolò Crisafi
Manuele Gragnolati
Manuele Gragnolati
Weathering the Afterlife
The Meteorological Psychology of Dante’s Commedia
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).
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Weathering the Afterlife
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| Subtitle |
The Meteorological Psychology of Dante’s Commedia
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| Author(s) |
Nicolò Crisafi
Manuele Gragnolati
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| Description |
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).
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| Place |
Berlin
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| Publisher |
ICI Berlin Press
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| Date |
2020
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| Subject |
Commedia
Dante Alighieri
Enantiosemy
Exposure
Meteorology
Receptivity
Vulnerability.
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| Rights |
© by the authors
Except for images or otherwise noted, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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| Harvested |
yes
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| Language |
en-GB
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| short title |
Weathering the Afterlife
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| page start |
63
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| page end |
91
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| 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
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