Revista de Filología Románica (Feb 2012)
Dante’s exile as an ideological construction (Paradiso XVII)
Abstract
This essay inquires into Dante’s exile as it is displayed in Paradiso XVII, pointing out its nature as an ideological construction inside a christian feudal conception. Dante’s exile is useful to give several meanings concerning Christ’s faith and sacrifice, but also to get into an exile’s conception as a personal identity crisis, not only social but psychic or ontological as well.
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