Old Conflicts, New Chapters
Rebecca (Y) Solnit
Old Conflicts, New Chapters
Rebecca (Y) Solnit
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Rewriting Dante explores how Dante Alighieri's lyric poetry was copied, edited, and printed across manuscripts and early printed books from ca. 1290 to 1550, revealing the ways in which these processes produced a distinct cultural figure: 'Dante the lyric poet.'
How does one know a whore is a whore? Upon what terms, standards, interpretive logics, and material practices does such knowledge depend? This book pursues these questions and, in so doing, discovers the extraordinary cultural labor necessary to produce and sustain the fiction of the "whore" as a readily apprehensible category of sexual knowledge.
This volume explores the civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois's repeated returns to, and shifting views of, the life and works of Cicero. In putting the two thinkers in conversation, the volume reveals fresh insights into both of their oeuvres and elucidates how Du Bois activated ancient literature in his life-long fight against racism.
