Читать книгу Gesammelte Aufsätze zur romanischen Philologie – Studienausgabe. Herausgegeben und ergänzt um Aufsätze, Primärbibliographie und Nachwort von Matthias Bormuth und Martin Vialon онлайн

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In striking contrast to earlier poets who dealt with the other world, the inhabitants of DanteDante’s three realms have not lost the individual shape and strength of their earthly character; on the contrary, their individual character presents itself with an intensity and concreteness superior to what it was during the various stages of their earthly careers; and this realismRealismus in the beyond is allowed to survive in spite of the fact that they have left history for an eternal, and eternally unchanging, situation. This powerful realism is based on DanteDante’s conception, that God’s judgment develops and fixes the complete and ultimate form of the individual – a conception which is in concordance with Thomistic anthropology – and which at the same time is figuralistic: in that God’s judgment endows an earthly figure with its own final and absolute perfection.

Earlier poets never used figurism in such a universal and audacious manner; they confine figuralistic treatment in most cases to the poetical illustration of sacred history; figurative interpretationFiguraldeutung of other events or of life in general was mostly unconscious.