Dominic Manganiello, University of Ottawa
English
Professor
Ottawa, Ontario
domeng@uottawa.ca
Office:
(613) 562-5800 ext. 1157
Bio/Research
I teach and carry out research mainly in the area of modern British literature. Although I continue to write on canonical authors such as Joyce and Eliot, my recent work has also focused on a group of writers that includes, among others, G.K. Chesterton, Dorothy L. Sayers, the Inklings, [especial...
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Bio/Research
I teach and carry out research mainly in the area of modern British literature. Although I continue to write on canonical authors such as Joyce and Eliot, my recent work has also focused on a group of writers that includes, among others, G.K. Chesterton, Dorothy L. Sayers, the Inklings, [especially J.R.R. Tolkien C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams], and their return to the Middle Ages either as the site of what Umberto Eco calls an “ironical revisitation” or as a quest to locate the roots of Western culture. My book-length project, Making Dante New, accordingly examines the nature of the high-level reception twentieth-century writers accorded The Divine Comedy. I am interested particularly in the various ways the medieval masterpiece serves as a catalyst for later writers intent on advancing an aesthetic of renewal that strives to keep the old and the new in dynamic balance. Whether they devise literary strategies to confirm, modify, or ironize the “horizons of expectations” of readers, the moderns sustain a rich intertextual dialogue with Dante grounded in the conviction that a luminous figure from the past still speaks to present cultural preoccupations.
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