Dante: Traces of the Prophetic

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dc.contributor.authorMfenyana, Deneo Thabisa
dc.contributor.supervisorHouliston, Victor
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-30T16:30:35Z
dc.date.available2024-07-30T16:30:35Z
dc.date.issued2023-06
dc.departmentDepartment of English Studies
dc.descriptionA research thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts by Research in English Literature, in the School of within the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in 2023.
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this project is the scrutiny of the vocational claims that Dante makes throughout his Commedia. Engaging the prophet-poet dichotomy through gradations of authorial authority, I place Dante within many vocations from prophet to poet, including mystic, philosopher and theologian, settling ultimately on Dante as a sort of seer, one who communicates parables as The Christ is known to do, but, making it expressly clear that his theological inaccuracies place him beneath biblical prophets in authority. The conscious strategies that Dante employs to secure auctoritas for his poem such as employing the biblical mystical senses, and resting on the shoulders of Virgil his philosophical and poetic auctor will be examined, showing intent in Dante to induce suspension of disbelief in his readers pertaining his vocational claims.
dc.description.sponsorshipProfessor Victor Houliston - Donation
dc.description.submitterMM2024
dc.facultyFaculty of Humanities
dc.identifierhttps://orcid.org/0009-0004-4682-0546
dc.identifier.citationMfenyana, Deneo Thabisa. (2023). Dante: Traces of the Prophetic. [Master's dissertation, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg]. WIReDSpace. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/39914
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/39914
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
dc.rights©2023 University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
dc.rights.holderUniversity of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
dc.schoolSchool of Literature, Language and Media
dc.subjectEnglish literature
dc.subjectVocational
dc.subjectAuctoritas
dc.subjectPoem
dc.subjectPhilosopher
dc.subjectTheologian
dc.subjectUCTD
dc.subject.otherSDG-4: Quality education
dc.titleDante: Traces of the Prophetic
dc.typeDissertation
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