Videos by Dennis Looney
Honored to receive the 2022 James E. Alatis Founder's Award from the Joint National Committee for... more Honored to receive the 2022 James E. Alatis Founder's Award from the Joint National Committee for Languages and the National Council for Languages and International Studies! It recognizes exceptional and life-long contributions to the advancement of language and international education, research and development and practice. 4 views
Two-minute outline of keynote talk on the reception of Dante by writers from the Southern US at A... more Two-minute outline of keynote talk on the reception of Dante by writers from the Southern US at AAIS Bologna, June 1, 2022. 23 views
Videos of Talks on Dante by Dennis Looney
Trinity College conference originally scheduled for April 2020 was postponed and reimagined as a ... more Trinity College conference originally scheduled for April 2020 was postponed and reimagined as a webinar: https://bit.ly/3iIXUkE in October. We speak in this order: myself, Carl Phillips (poet), Sherman Irby (jazz composer), Cornel West (public intellectual), with some time for chatter in the last fifteen minutes.
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This is a talk I delivered to Dickinson College students and an audience that included associates... more This is a talk I delivered to Dickinson College students and an audience that included associates of the Italian Consulate in Philadelphia: https://bit.ly/37DNy3x. Of note, at nearly the 26 minute mark the talk was Zoom-bombed by someone with a purple crayon playing cartoon Mariachi music; that has all be edited out thank goodness. I am impressed with how we stopped, paused, reconnected, and resumed more or less in stride. The talk and format with students in the audience reminds me of classes I once taught and it pleases me to share. The talk itself is about 35-40 minutes followed by energetic Q and A.
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Books by Dennis Looney
Vol. 84. I Tatti Renaissance Library. Harvard University Press (2018).
Latin Poetry.
Ariosto, Lu... more Vol. 84. I Tatti Renaissance Library. Harvard University Press (2018).
Latin Poetry.
Ariosto, Ludovico.
Ed. and trans. Dennis Looney and D. Mark Possanza.
The erudite and playful works of one of Italy’s greatest poets, Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533), are translated into English for the first time. This I Tatti edition provides a newly collated Latin text and offers unique insight into the formation of one of the Renaissance’s foremost vernacular writers.
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Chapters 1 and 5 (disregard what looks like gobbledygook; just download and enjoy)
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Essays: Dante by Dennis Looney
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During the Black Revolution, LeRoi Jones used a radical adaptation of Dante to express a new mili... more During the Black Revolution, LeRoi Jones used a radical adaptation of Dante to express a new militant identity, turning him into a new man with a new name, Amiri Baraka, whose experimental literary project culminated in The System of Dante's Hell in 1965. Dante's poem (specifically, John Sinclair's translation) provides a grid for the narrative of Baraka's autobiographical novel; at the same time, the Italian poet's description of hell functions for Baraka as a gloss on many of his own experiences. Whereas for Ralph Ellison and Richard Wright, Dante marks a way into the world of European culture, Baraka uses Dante first to measure the growing distance between himself and European literature and then, paradoxically, to separate himself totally from it. Baraka's response to the poet at once confirms and belies Edward Said's claim that Dante's Divine Comedy is essentially an imperial text that is foundational to the imperial discipline of comparative lit...
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Comparative Studies in Modernism, 2022
Introduction to special number of Comparative Studies in Modernism.
For entire issue, with essa... more Introduction to special number of Comparative Studies in Modernism.
For entire issue, with essays on Eliot, Pater, Forster, Sayers, Kinsella, Wright, and Bang, among others, see:
https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/COSMO/issue/view/538
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Cambridge: Legenda, 2021
From Dante Beyond Borders. Eds. Nick Havely, Jonathan Katz, and Richard Cooper. Cambridge: Legend... more From Dante Beyond Borders. Eds. Nick Havely, Jonathan Katz, and Richard Cooper. Cambridge: Legenda, 2021,
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In The Routledge History of Italian Americans (Routledge, 2018), pp. 91-104.
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Based on Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy... more Based on Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy (U Notre Dame Press, 2011)
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Dante in the Long Nineteenth CenturyNationality, Identity, and Appropriation, 2012
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Allegorica, 1992
A reading of Inferno XIII with a focus on "credere," in the text and in the commentary tradition.
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Books by Dennis Looney
Latin Poetry.
Ariosto, Ludovico.
Ed. and trans. Dennis Looney and D. Mark Possanza.
The erudite and playful works of one of Italy’s greatest poets, Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533), are translated into English for the first time. This I Tatti edition provides a newly collated Latin text and offers unique insight into the formation of one of the Renaissance’s foremost vernacular writers.
Essays: Dante by Dennis Looney
For entire issue, with essays on Eliot, Pater, Forster, Sayers, Kinsella, Wright, and Bang, among others, see:
https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/COSMO/issue/view/538
Latin Poetry.
Ariosto, Ludovico.
Ed. and trans. Dennis Looney and D. Mark Possanza.
The erudite and playful works of one of Italy’s greatest poets, Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533), are translated into English for the first time. This I Tatti edition provides a newly collated Latin text and offers unique insight into the formation of one of the Renaissance’s foremost vernacular writers.
For entire issue, with essays on Eliot, Pater, Forster, Sayers, Kinsella, Wright, and Bang, among others, see:
https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/COSMO/issue/view/538
DENNIS LOONEY
Lectura Dantis
No. 12, SUPPLEMENT. Special Issue: Lectura Dantis Virginiana, vol. II. Dante's "Divine Comedy" Introductory Readings II: Purgatorio (SPRING 1993), pp. 248-258 (11 pages)
The most recent MLA language enrollment census and report (published in 2018) revealed that 106 programs that had offered courses taught in Italian language in 2013 did not report any enrollments for 2016. Although 50 programs were added in 2016, there was a net loss of 56 programs in Italian between 2013 and 2016-"loss" here meaning that where there once were courses in Italian, they are no longer offered. But at the same time the data also show many programs, undergraduate and graduate, with increasing or stable enrollments. The article considers briefly what works to make some programs thrive at a time of serious challenges. The article concludes by recommending that Italian programs embrace diversity initiatives to create innovative curricula that will appeal to more students.
The two volumes under review now make it easier to read important works by the greatest writers of the Strozzi family in Ferrara, Tito Vespasiano Strozzi (1423–1505) and his son, Ercole Strozzi (1473–1508).