Deborah Parker is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the University of Virginia.
"Commentary and Ideology makes a timely appearance into the
theoretical discussions of today. Parker's work is informed by such
theorists as Jauss and Bakhtin and by new developments in
bibliographic studies, and this offers a perspective on her
material which is both original and truly exciting."—Craig William
Kellendorf, Texas A & M University
"Parker's vision is subtle and nuanced, and it offers richly
textured insights into the dynamics of reception that take account
of received opinion, communities of readership, registers of
response, and unconscious as well as conscious interpretative
choices. Parker's book stands in a class by itself in the study of
Dante reception."—William J. Kennedy, Cornell University
"The vast corpus of medieval commentary on Dante has for far too
long been either ignored, misunderstood, marginalised, or read for
supposedly significant details, which wrenched from their context,
have been made to serve needs of modern editors and critics—needs
which are very different from those of the original commentators.
It is time that this corpus was seen whole and in its proper
historical context. Deborah Parker's book represents a major step
in that direction. It should be read not just by Dantists but by
anyone with an interest in medieval hermeneutics."—Alastair Minnis,
University of York
"This book's shift in focus from criticism itself to the nature of
its interpretive legacy has now made possible—perhaps 'necessary'
is the better word—whole new lines of scholarly and critical
thinking. The book's method, a kind of new philology, represents an
important and innovative approach to reading."—Jerome McGann,
University of Virginia
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