Jerome Mazzaro examines Dante's Vita Nuova as an artistic correlative to what Dante conceived as an image of himself. Specifically, he explores the structure of the work in relation to medieval views of memory, self, music, form, and interpretation, and against the facts of Dante's life and culture as we have come to know them.Originally published in 1981.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Figure of Dante: An Essay on The Vita Nuova (Princeton Essays in Literature)

Literature & Fiction

Mazzaro, Jerome

Humor & Satire

Princeton University Press

War Games

War Games is a comic, ensemble novel set in the mid-sixties at a small teacher's college in central New York state. It follows the efforts of Ed Peschke to come to terms with setbacks to both his writing and academic careers in a slowly changing environment. His life is being intruded upon by his own expectations and a rapidly changing department, nation, and world. One of the intrusions is Bill Parkin, a second writer, who is hired as competition for Peschke and whose early murder sets off a competition between Peschke and a third fiction writer, Sara Evans, and inquiries into meaning and the functions of art. In a countermove to their ambitions are the hopes of Abe and Julia Hawk to turn the college into something academically respectable, knowing that, in doing so, they have had to submit and may yet submit to underhanded maneuvering. Sara's husband, who is a business executive, brings into this evolving picture of small-town academia glimpses of the business world that he is part of. Other minor characters give density to the scope of the novel's four "worlds" the academic, the literary, the domestic, and the business granting variety to what is essentially a short novel, whose own perspective, as Peschke explains late in the work, is either provisional or absurd. In realizing its basic "novel of manners," War Games goes back to Henry Fielding's idea of the novel as "an epic in prose." Like books in an epic or episodes in a serial, its twelve chapters are essentially self-contained modular units. There are twelve such units two of which focus on each of six characters in a cultural perspective that moves from totally male (1-4) to mixed (5-8) to totally female (9-12). Like the academics whose lives it traces, the novel is principally thought and talk rather than action and competition and conflict rather than cooperation, and, yet, some progress appears to have occurred by the work's end. Except for the dead Parkin, the main characters are better off than when the narrative started and some even have gained better knowledge of themselves, though throughout the book self-deception is considerable.

Xlibris, Corp.

AuthorHouse

The caves of love

Jazz Press

Memory and Making: From Simonides to Shakespear

British & Irish

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