SOURCE: "Synchronicity: Death and the Vita Nuova," in Writing in Dante's Cult of Truth from Borges to Boccaccio, Duke University Press, 1991, pp. 11-50.
Menocal argues in this excerpt that the Vita Nuova's real subject is Dante's search for a viable poetry and that he ultimately succeeds when he adopts an absolute literalness.
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