...So Young Park This essay explores Dante's idea of trasumanar , “going beyond the human,” through a vertical reading of cantos 23 of the Commedia . It examines how Dante relies on bodies and their sensory experiences to explain heavenly paradise and the ineffable. The essay invokes D. W. Winnicott's...

... of the intellect.” Looking back from the end of the Commedia , however, reveals that what has been lost is eventually found in a new form. In the beatific “white rose” of Paradise we recall the “dark wood” of the poem's opening; when Beatrice is no longer by the pilgrim's side in the Empyrean we remember...

... , trans. Mandelbaum Allen ; notes by Mandelbaum Allen Oldcorn Anthony . New York : Bantam Dell . Armour Peter . 1989 . Dante’s Griffin and the History of the World: A Study of the Earthly Paradise . New York : Oxford University Press . Clark Anne L. Forthcoming...

... to begin paying an endless debt of love. In Book 4 of Paradise Lost, Satan explains his rebellion as having been prompted in part by his desire to quit / The debt immense of endless gratitude, / So burdensome, still paying, still to owe (Milton 1958: Paradise Lost 4.51 53). I have never been able...

... but where they are, with the one caveat being that those in Purgatory look forward with hope for Paradise. Moreover, if the sinners have violated the divine justice at work in the world, then their souls suffer the consequences. If you are teaching Dante in a survey of world masterpieces, you might...

.... . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1996–2010 . Dante Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy.” 6 vols.: 1. Inferno, Italian text and translation; 2. Inferno, commentary; 3. Purgatory, Italian text and translation; 4. Purgatory, commentary; 5. Paradise, Italian text and translation; 6. Paradise, commentary...

... : Harvard University Press . Fitzgerald F. Scott . [1920] 2009 . This Side of Paradise . New York : Vintage Classics . Gallagher Susan VanZanten . 2001 . “ Contingencies and Intersections: The Formation of Pedagogical Canons .” Pedagogy 1.1 : 53 – 67 . Guillory John...

... Jake Sackrey Charles . 1996 . Strangers in Paradise: Academics from the Working Class . Lanham, MD : University Press of America . Shepard Alan McMillan John Tate Gary , eds. 1998 . Coming to Class: Pedagogy and the Social Class of Teachers . Portsmouth, NH : Boynton/Cook...

..., but solidly. Boy, was I wrong. (152) Other contributors describe the joys and rewards of teaching in higher educa- tion. In her essay, Ecstasy: Teaching and Learning without Limits, hooks writes: The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created. The classroom, with all its...

... that had exiled him, with Inferno on the left, Mount Purgatory behind him, and Paradise above — I hope to impress upon students the continuity of Dante’s authority and influence in Florence during the two and a half centuries fol- lowing his death.5 Dante’s influence upon the Renaissance...

... tears they drop’d, but wip’d them soon; The World was all before them, where to choose Thir place of rest, and Providence thir guide: They hand in hand with wandring steps and slow, Through Eden took thir solitarie way. — John Milton, Paradise Lost In part 2 of Don Quixote, the Don and Sancho...

... . Strangers in Paradise: Academics from the Working Class . Boston: South End. Tokarczyk, Michelle M., and Elizabeth A. Fay. 1993 . Working Class Women in the Academy: Laborers in the Knowledge Factory . Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. Welsch, Kathleen, ed. 2004 . Those Winter Sundays...

.... Perf. Buster Keaton. United Artists. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. 1920 . This Side of Paradise . New York: Scribners. The Freshman . 1925 . Dir. Fred Newmeyer and Sam Taylor. Perf. Harold Lloyd. Pathé. Horsefeathers . 1932 . Dir. Norman McLeod. Perf. the Marx Brothers. Paramount. Johnson...

... text undermines the lessons it sets out to teach. John Milton, a devout Christian, wrote Paradise Lost in large part to celebrate the glory of the God in which he believed — and Paradise Lost does indeed tell us that Christ is far better and more glorious than Satan. Satan, however, gets...

... entertaining actually teaches didactic lessons; or that you look for how an apparently didactic text undermines the lessons it sets out to teach. John Milton, a devout Christian, wrote Paradise Lost in large part to celebrate the glory of the God in which he believed — and Paradise Lost does indeed...

... text undermines the lessons it sets out to teach. John Milton, a devout Christian, wrote Paradise Lost in large part to celebrate the glory of the God in which he believed — and Paradise Lost does indeed tell us that Christ is far better and more glorious than Satan. Satan, however, gets...

... to praise. Reading against the grain can mean that you look for how a text that at first seems simply entertaining actually teaches didactic lessons; or that you look for how an apparently didactic text undermines the lessons it sets out to teach. John Milton, a devout Christian, wrote Paradise...

... of American Research Press. Ryan, Jake, and Charles Sackrey. 1984 . Strangers in Paradise: Academics from the Working Class . Boston: South End. Warner, Michael. 1993 . “Tongues Untied: Memoirs of a Pentecostal Boyhood.” Voice Literary Supplement , February, 13 -14. Watkins, Evan. 1989 . Work...

... effectively for word study 4. Here, students use the OED to help them trace shifting or evolving usages of a single key word through a long narrative poem: Milton s Paradise Lost or (an option in Schirmer s class) Spenser s Faerie Queene. While the larger scope can make this a daunting assignment, it has...

... to the ineffability of divine knowledge. So Young Park in “Birds of Paradise and Other Transitional Phenom- ena: A Vertical Reading of Cantos 23” starts with the observation that cantos 23 are preoccupied with the body, as Hawkins (2015) points out in his own vertical reading of the cantos. While...