Introduction: Pasolini after Dante
1 Setting the scene: debates and contexts
2 Dante, Poeta della realtà
3 Representing the reality of the 'other': objectivity and plurilingualism from Poesia dialettale del Novecento to Ragazzi di vita
4 Officina and 'La grande ideologia del reale': Dante. Contini, Gramsci and Auerbach for a theory of experimental literature
5 Auerbach's figual realism in Pasolini's 'national-popular' cinema and beyond
6 La Divina Mimesis, or the death of dantean realism
Conclusion.