Dante's Masterplot and Alternative Narratives in the Commedia

Dante''s Masterplot and Alternative Narratives in the ''Commedia'' questions the familiar narrative arc at play in the writings of Dante Alighieri and opens his masterpiece to three alternative models that resist it. Dante''s masterplot is the teleological trajectory by which the poet subordinates the past to the authority of a new experience. The book analyses the masterplot''s workings in Dante'...