‘Occhi Fissi’: fixing the gaze in Dante’s Commedia
Moments of visual fixation appear throughout the Commedia. Reconstructing their connotations in relation to contemporary discourses on sight, this article argues that, as well as a literary trope, Dante’s depictions of fixing the gaze function as a metaliterary device, an invitation to the reader’s...
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Taylor and Francis
2023
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