Howard R. Marraro Prize
Scholarly Society
Modern Language Association
· 2022
In Dante’s New Life of the Book: A Philology of World Literature, Martin Eisner uses not only manuscripts, editions, and translations of Dante’s Vita nuova but also adaptations of the work in postcards, paintings, music, and film to show what all these transmissions of the Vita nuova reveal about Dante’s distinctive textual strategies. Eisner covers a dazzling number of contexts, offering persuasive analyses of literary and nonliterary material. This strikingly original book illuminates the issues regarding the material transmission of a canonical work the way no other study of Italian literature has and, in so doing, opens up new perspectives and ways of reading. It will be fundamental reading not only for scholars of Dante but for all those working within the material turn in literary studies.
More about this award
Lily Auchincloss Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome (Medieval Competition) 2013-14
International
American Academy in Rome
· December 2013
International
American Academy in Rome
· 2013
Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Romance Studies
Other
Unknown
· April 2008
Institute of Advanced Study, Member
Other
Unknown
· 2008
School of Historical Studies/ Members
National
Institute for Advanced Study
· 2007
Franklin Grants
National
American Philosophical Society
· 2007
