Alimentary metaphors in Dante's "Paradiso".
| Publisher | Modern Humanities Research Association |
| Publication | The Modern Language Review |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0026-7937 |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | 96 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Published | 2001-07-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Person | Authorship | Dante Alighieri |
| Author | n/a | David Gibbons |
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| Paradiso | eNotes |
One of the most celebrated features of Dante's presentation of the afterlife in the Commedia is its realism. The concreteness of the poet's imagination is self-evident in the Inferno and the Purgatorio, where damnation and purgation are exemplified through real punishments and corrections meted out to real sinners. It is no less a characteristic of the Paradiso, however, where the intellectual and spiritual nature of heaven is communicated first to the pilgrim in sensory terms, as Beatrice famously explains in Canto 4. This principle of rendering non-literal concepts in physical,...
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