{"product_id":"dante-artist-of-gesture-hardcover","title":"Dante, Artist of Gesture - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHeather Webb\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDante, Artist of Gesture\u003c\/em\u003e proposes a visual technique for reading Dante's \u003cem\u003eComedy\u003c\/em\u003e, suggesting that the reader engages with Dante's striking images of souls as if these images were arranged in an architectural space. Art historians have shown how series of discrete images or scenes in medieval places of worship, such as the mosaics in the Baptistery of San Giovanni in Florence or the frescoes in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, establish not only narrative sequences but also parallelisms between registers, forging links between those registers by the use of colour and gestural forms. Heather Webb takes up those techniques to show that the \u003cem\u003eComedy\u003c\/em\u003e likewise invites the reader to make visual links between disparate, non-sequential moments in the text. In other words, Webb argues that Dante's poem asks readers to view its verbally articulated sequences of images with a set of observational tools that could be acquired from the practice of engaging with and meditating on the bodily\u003cbr\u003edepictions of vice and virtue in fresco cycles or programmes of mosaics in places of worship. One of the most inherently visible aspects of the \u003cem\u003eComedy\u003c\/em\u003e is the representation of signature gestures of the characters described in each of the realms. This book traces described gestures and bodily signs across the canticles of the poem to provide a key for identifying affective and devotional itineraries within the text.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHeather Webb, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of Medieval Italian Literature and Culture, University of Cambridge\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHeather Webb\u003c\/strong\u003e is the Professor of Medieval Italian Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Selwyn College. She received her PhD from Stanford University in 2004 and taught at The Ohio State University for eight years before coming to Cambridge. She is the author of two monographs, \u003cem\u003eThe Medieval Heart\u003c\/em\u003e (2010), and \u003cem\u003eDante's Persons: An Ethics of the Transhuman\u003c\/em\u003e (2016) and has co-edited five books, including \u003cem\u003eVertical Readings in Dante's 'Comedy'\u003c\/em\u003e in three volumes, and the forthcoming \u003cem\u003eDante's 'Vita nova': A Collaborative Reading\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.9 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 29, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42171203321991,"sku":"9780192866998","price":171.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/7c5cc456117935c456e724b7de0b2c9c.webp?v=1733353882","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/dante-artist-of-gesture-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}