... discussions. Using an inquiry-based approach to genre study, the students in this classroom explore many kinds of “text”—from stand-up comedy to fiction and narrative nonfiction—with an unavoidable eye toward critical theory but without the traditional approach that pushes students to apply a “critical lens...

...Jessica Hooten Wilson This article offers a vertical reading of cantos 19 of the Divine Comedy , which emphasizes Dante's maturing ideas of justice and provides pedagogical exercises that invite students to grow alongside the pilgrim. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Dante cantos 19...

...Margaret Hughes A reading of Inferno 32, Purgatorio 31, and Paradiso 31 compares a physical and interior pilgrimage, especially in the way in which the beginning and end of an interior journey are distinguished, to illuminate the concept of love that is central to the Divine Comedy . © 2017...

... of the mechanisms of comedy. In this article the author describes a new first-year, general-education course students titled Laughing Matters: Comedy and Satire, which she created because she believes such a topic is truly interdisciplinary, asking students to come to a sophisticated understanding...

...Jason Aleksander This essay discusses five main topoi in the Divine Comedy through which teachers might encourage students to explore the question of the Divine Comedy ’s treatment of philosophy: (1) the Divine Comedy ’s representations in Inferno of noble pagans who are allegorically...

... Approaches to Teaching Dante’s Commedia The Triple Cord Teaching Dante’s Divine Comedy and Creativity Kirilka Stavreva The cosmos that Dante invented in the Divine Comedy can be mapped using a range of disciplinary methods: literary and book studies, history...

... for reading the Comedy retrospectively and prospectively as well as vertically, in other words, reading forward and backward in a recursive process. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Dante, Comedy retrospection, introspection, prospection vertical readings translation Comedy , cantos 15, 19...

...Akash Kumar This essay considers select translations of Dante's Divine Comedy through the lens of pedagogical value while emphasizing the merit of holistic reading across the full scope of the poem and across multiple translations to gain additional insights into the original work. © 2017 by Duke...

... in Dante’s lifetime. The larger goal is to give students an appreciation of Dante’s remarkable erudition, evident in the hundreds of biblical, mythological, literary, philosophical, and historical allusions in the Divine Comedy . The lecture ends with the distribution of a table of works to which Dante...

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... of Dante's poetic vision and social critiques. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Dante Divine Comedy homosexuality marriage medieval sexuality gender Florence Works Cited Armour Peter . 1994 . “Brunetto, the Stoic Pessimist.” Dante Studies 112 : 1 – 18 . Barolini...

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... 2012 Works Cited Alighieri Dante . 1995 . The Divine Comedy , trans. Mandelbaum Allen . New York : Knopf . Armour Peter . 2000 . “ Dante’s Contrapasso: Context and Texts .” Italian Studies 55 : 1 – 20 . Elster Jon . 1999 . Alchemies of the Mind...

.... In my experience as both a reader and a teacher of the poem, such a gloss disrupts the poetic experience and deadens the dynamic. In order to empower students to attempt more direct readings of Dante’s Comedy apart from the gloss, my project aims at rapidly provid- ing students with that final...

... , Composition Studies , the Journal of Cultural Research , Reflections, Writing on the Edge , and in edited collections. Miriam Chirico specializes in dramatic literature and comedy studies at Eastern Connecticut State University, where she is professor of English. She is the author of The Theatre...

... Dante ineffability teaching Works Cited Durling Robert M. , ed. and trans. 1996, 2003 , 2011 . The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri . 3 vols . New York : Oxford University Press . Hawkins Peter . 1991 . “Dido, Beatrice, and the Signs of Ancient Love.” In The Poetry...

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