Dr Tristan Kay

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• 2025

  Review of: Elisa Brilli and Giuliano Milani, Dante’s New Lives: Biography and Autobiography (London: Reaktion Books, 2023)

  Kay, T., 2025, (In preparation) In: The Medieval Review.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review (Academic Journal) › peer-review
• 2024

  Dante Centenaries, Then and Now

  Kay, T. (Editor) & Coluzzi, F. (Editor), 3 Jun 2024, In: Bibliotheca Dantesca: Journal of Dante Studies. 6, p. 200-318 119 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

• Dante lirico / Dante comico: alcune riflessioni sulla poesia d’amore nel poema sacro

  Kay, T. J., 23 Apr 2024, (Accepted/In press) Poesia e teologia dell’amore in Dante: Atti del Convegno internazionale di Studi Bologna-Ravenna (Ravenna, 18 novembre 2023). Ledda, G. (ed.). Ravenna: Ravenna: Longo Editore

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book

• From Isolation to Integration: Political Themes in Anglophone Dante Scholarship (1945-2021)

  Kay, T. J., 2 Sept 2024, 'Now Feed Yourself': Anglo-American and Italian Scholarship on Dante. Baranski, Z., Cachey, T. & Pegoretti, A. (eds.). Oxford: Legenda, p. 281-96 (Italian Perspectives).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book

• Looking Back to Look Forward: Dante Centenaries, Then and Now

  Kay, T. J. & Coluzzi, F., 20 Apr 2024, In: Bibliotheca Dantesca: Journal of Dante Studies. 6, p. 200-207 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

• “Dante e l’Italia sono la stessa cosa”: Poet and Nation in the Centenary Years of 1865 and 2021

  Kay, T. J., 20 Apr 2024, In: Bibliotheca Dantesca: Journal of Dante Studies. 6, p. 208-229 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Centenary 100%
  • Contemporary 25%
  • Frame-work 25%
  • Firenze 25%
  • Italian Identity 25%
• 2023

  Dante's Christian Ethics: Purgatory and its Moral Contexts by George Corbett (review)

  Kay, T. J., 5 Oct 2023, In: Religion and Literature. 54, 3, p. 145-147

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review (Academic Journal) › peer-review

• Kay on Conti, 'The Ultimate Italian: Dante and a Nation’s Identity': Conti, Fulvio. The Ultimate Italian: Dante and a Nation’s Identity. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2023. viii + 222 pp. $160.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781032390895.

  Kay, T. J., 24 Sept 2023, In: H-Net Reviews.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

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  47 Downloads (Pure)

• Review of: Nicolo Crisafi, Dante’s Masterplot and the Alternative Narrative Models in the Commedia (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022)

  Kay, T. J., 17 Feb 2023, In: Italian Studies. 78, 1, p. 142-43 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review (Academic Journal) › peer-review

• Various entries

  Kay, T., 8 Dec 2023, Primo Levi: A Digital Commentary. Gordon, R., Leavitt, C. & Montemaggi, V. (eds.).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Other chapter contribution

  Open Access

• Vita nova XIX–XXIV [10.12–15.11]: A New and More Noble Theme

  Kay, T. J., 12 Dec 2023, Dante’s ‘Vita nova’: A Collaborative Reading. Baranski, Z. & Webb, H. (eds.). South Bend, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, p. 157-169 13 p. (William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book
• 2022

  Primo Levi, Dante, and Language in Auschwitz

  Kay, T. J., 16 Jan 2022, In: Modern Language Review. 117, 1, p. 66-100 35 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Primo Levi 100%
  • Auschwitz 100%
  • Linguistics 100%
  • Inferno 66%
  • Engage-ment 33%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

  321 Downloads (Pure)
• 2021

  Politics

  Kay, T., 25 Mar 2021, The Oxford Handbook of Dante. Gragnolati, M., Lombardi, E. & Southerden, F. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 270-86 17 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book

  • Empire 100%
  • Fourteenth Century 100%
  • Volatility 100%
  • Lived Experience 100%
  • Political Theory 100%
• 2020

  Dante and the Transnational Turn

  Kay, T., 17 Jul 2020, Transnational Italian Studies. Burdett, C., Polezzi, L. & Santello, M. (eds.). Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, p. 291-307 17 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book

  Open Access

  File
  91 Downloads (Pure)

• Dante's Poetics of the Subhuman: A Reading of Inferno XXXII

  Kay, T., 31 Jan 2020, In: L'Alighieri. 54, p. 99-115 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Poetics 100%
  • Inferno 100%
  • Canto 50%
  • Human Language 50%
  • Contemporary 25%
  206 Downloads (Pure)

• Review of: Giacomo da Lentini, The Complete Poetry, trans. by R. Lansing and with an introduction by A. Kumar (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018)

  Kay, T., 1 Apr 2020, In: Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies. 95, 2, p. 554-555 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Review 100%
  • University of Toronto 100%
• 2019

  Review of: N. Tonelli, Fisiologia della passione. Poesia d’amore e medicina da Cavalcanti a Boccaccio (Florence: Galluzzo, 2015)

  Kay, T., 1 Jan 2019, In: Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies. 94, 1, p. 293-94

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review (Academic Journal) › peer-review
• 2018

  Vernacular Literature and Culture

  Kay, T., 7 Dec 2018, The Cambridge Companion to Dante's Divine Comedy. Gilson, S. & Baranski, Z. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 140-57

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book

  • Vernacular Culture 100%
  • vernacular literature 100%
  • Tradition 66%
  • Poetics 66%
  • Poem 66%
• 2017

  Dante's Ambivalence towards the Lustful

  Kay, T. J., 1 Jul 2017, Dante and the Seven Deadly Sins. Barnes, J. & O'Connell, D. (eds.). Dublin: Four Courts Press, p. 271-302 32 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book

• Introduction

  Kay, T., McLaughlin, M. & Zaccarello, M., 5 Jul 2017, Dante in Oxford: The Paget Toynbee Lectures 1995-2003. Taylor and Francis Group, p. ix-xii

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book

• Introduction: Transforming desire

  Gragnolati, M., Kay, T., Lombardi, E. & Southerden, F., 5 Jul 2017, Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages. Taylor and Francis Group, p. 1-11 11 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript to book
• 2016

  17. Seductive Lies, Unpalatable Truths, Alter Egos

  Kay, T., 12 Dec 2016, Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy. Corbett, G. & , H. W. (eds.). Cambridge: Open Book Publishers , Vol. 2. p. 127-49

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book

  Open Access
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Dante's Lyric Redemption: Eros, Salvation, Vernacular Tradition

  Kay, T., 1 Jan 2016, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 286 p. (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs)

  Research output: Book/Report › Authored book

  • Tradition 100%
  • Salvation 100%
  • Redemption 100%
  • Vernacular 100%
  • Lyrics 100%
• 2015

  Review of: J. Steinberg, Dante and the Limits of the Law

  Kay, T., 1 Oct 2015, In: Modern Language Review. 110, 3, p. 1142-43 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review (Academic Journal) › peer-review
• 2014

  'Dante's Cavalcantian Relapse: The "Pargoletta" Sequence and the Commedia'

  Kay, T. J., 15 Sept 2014, In: Dante Studies. 131, p. 73-97

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
• 2012

  'Desire, Subjectivity, and Lyric Poetry in Dante's Convivio and Commedia'

  Kay, T. J., 14 Jun 2012, Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages. Gragnolati, M., Kay, T., Lombardi, E. & Southerden, F. (eds.). Oxford: Legenda, p. 164-84

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book

• Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages

  Kay, T. J., Gragnolati, M. (Editor), Lombardi, E. F. (Editor) & Southerden, F. (Editor), 1 May 2012, Oxford: Legenda. 276 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Edited book

  • Medieval Culture 100%
  • Middle Ages 100%
  • Scholars 50%
  • Discourse 50%
  • Vita Nova 50%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• 'Transforming Desire'

  Kay, T. J., Gragnolati, M., Lombardi, E. F. & Southerden, F., 2012, Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages. Gragnolati, M., Kay, T., Lombardi, E. & Southerden, F. (eds.). Oxford: Legenda, p. 1-11

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book
• 2011

  Dante in Oxford: The Paget Toynbee Lectures

  Kay, T. J., McLaughlin, M. (Editor) & Zaccarello, M. (Editor), 2011, Oxford: Legenda. 200 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Edited book

  • Scholars 100%
  • 1990s 50%
  • Divine Comedy 50%
  • Ovid 50%
  • Obscenity 50%

• Dido, Aeneas, and the Evolution of Dante's Poetics

  Kay, T. J., 2011, In: Dante Studies. 129, p. 135-60

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

• Review of O. Holmes, Dante's Two Beloveds: Ethics and Erotics in the Divine Comedy (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008)

  Kay, T. J., Oct 2011, In: Speculum. 86, 4, p. 1083-84

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review (Academic Journal) › peer-review

• Review of Z. G. Barański and T. Cachey, eds, Petrarch and Dante: Anti-Dantism, Metaphysics, Tradition (Notre Dame: Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 2009)

  Kay, T. J., 2011, In: Modern Language Review. 106, no. 1, p. 267-69

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review (Academic Journal) › peer-review

• "Una modesta Divina Commedia": Dante as anti-model in Cesare Pavese's La luna e i falo'

  Kay, T. J., 2011, Metamorphosing Dante: Appropriations, Manipulations and Rewritings in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. Berlin and Vienna: Turia and Kant, p. 101-22 22 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book

  Open Access

  • Cesare Pavese 100%
  • Dante's Commedia 100%
  • Genesis 50%
  • Irony 50%
  • Human Condition 50%
• 2010

  Eros, Spirituality and Vernacular Poetry in Dante

  Kay, T. J., Mar 2010

  Research output: Other contribution › PhD thesis (not Bristol)

• Review of Dante Alighieri, La Vita Nuova, translated by D. R. Slavitt (Cambridge [MA] and London: Harvard University Press, 2010)

  Kay, T. J., 29 Oct 2010, In: TLS: The Times Literary Supplement. 5613, p. 28

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review (Academic Journal) › peer-review

• Review of Guido Cavalcanti, Complete Poems, edited and translated by A. Mortimer (London: Oneworld Classics, 2010)

  Kay, T. J., 10 May 2010, In: TLS: The Times Literary Supplement. 5589, p. 26

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review (Academic Journal) › peer-review
• 2009

  'Redefining the "matera amorosa": Dante's Vita Nova and Guittone's (anti-)courtly "canzoniere"'

  Kay, T. J., 1 Nov 2009, In: Italianist. 29, 3, p. 369-99 31 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
  6 Citations (Scopus)

• Review of: E. Lombardi, The Syntax of Desire: Language and Love in Augustine, The Modistae, Dante (Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2007)

  Kay, T. J., 2009, In: Italian Studies. 64, p. 314-15

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review (Academic Journal) › peer-review
• 2008

  Review of A. Mandelbaum, A. Oldcorn, and C. Ross, eds, Lectura Dantis: Purgatorio (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2008)

  Kay, T. J., 2008, In: Annali d'italianistica. p. 490-91

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review (Academic Journal) › peer-review

• Review of 'P. Williams, Through Human Love to God: Essays on Dante and Petrarch (Leicester: Troubador, 2007), Forum Italicum, 42 (2008), 217-219'

  Kay, T. J., 2008, In: Forum Italicum. 42, p. 217-19

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review (Academic Journal) › peer-review