...Anne L. Clark Introducing Dante in a course on medieval visuality positioned the Commedia in relation to medieval women’s visionary and mystical literature. This article suggests how a comparison of the Commedia with this literature, particularly the works of Hildegard of Bingen, can illuminate...

... significant Christian mystics of the twelfth century, Hildegard pursued her visionary agenda with singular purpose, even against the established male hierarchy of her time. Her conflict with the abbot Kuno of Disibodenberg, who tried to prevent her from escaping male tutelage and building her own...

.... The seminar itself was gloriously liberating: a vibrant discovery and exploration of women whose names we only dimly knew or didn t know at all a radical interrogation of all the assumptions we had internalized in our graduate studies: the nature of the Romantic genius, just what visionary meant, the child...

... recent of his twenty-four books is Northrop Frye: Religious Visionary and Architect of the Spiritual World (2004). Abby M. Dubisar is a PhD student in composition and rhetoric and a graduate teaching associate in the Department of English, Miami University of Ohio. Her research interests...

...- losophy   67 Bolduc, Michelle | Medieval Rhetoric and the Commedia   49 Clark, Anne L. | Teaching Dante as a Visionary Prophet   105 Conway, Melissa | Introducing Undergraduates to Books from the Age of Dante — in Twenty Minutes or Less   133 Drell,  Joanna H. | Using Dante to Teach the Middle...

... trips. This is especially troubling considering that Baltimore is an ideal field trip location for those within driving distance of the city. Historically, educators and students could have access to resources such as the American Visionary Art Museum, the Chesapeake Shakespeare Theater...

... the influence of American media on American culture. Kari Lokke is professor of comparative literature at the University of Califor- nia, Davis. She is the author of Gérard de Nerval: The Poet as Social Visionary (1987) and Tracing Women’s Romanticism: Gender, History and Transcen- dence (2004...

..., and philosophy—the article contends that the university is at a new moment of self-understanding. © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Ascott, Roy. 2003 . Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology, and Consciousness , ed. Edward A. Shanken. Berkeley: University of California Press...

.... Through an examination of the procession in the final cantos ofPurgatory , Anne L. Clark demonstrates how a compari- son between Dante and medieval visionaries, such as Hildegard of Bingen, can shed light on the importance and innovative qualities of these prophetic writings. By incorporating...

... and Anna Letitia Barbauld, or critiques of social systems for William Blake and Mary Robinson, or the roles of women for Mary Wollstonecraft, Anna Barbauld, and Jane Taylor, or imagination for Anna Barbauld and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, or the nature of visionary perception for William Blake and Samuel...

... difficult for students to recognize Melusine as a figure for the female poet and to see “The Fairy of the Fountains” as a poem about female creativity, imagination, and visionary powers. Yet this is clearly how her mother views her as she witnesses Melusine inspired by the book of nature to replace...

... Safford    Dante in the Italian Renaissance of Art  99 erroneously ascribing pieces to Dante’s contemporaries that match artworks described in the visionary poem and entirely inventing masterpieces and fame for minor artists in ways that echoed Dante’s creative inventions. By embellishing upon...

... visionary text, our academy’s infatuation with agonistic logos/word and linear, “plain-­vanilla” thesis-­and-­support argument structure remains deeply, ideologically, systemically ingrained. Cassuto and Jay (2014) acknowledge, and my own experience suggests, that this “default” structure and its req...

... to those for whom the virtues of bureaucracy are inconceivable (210). Different versions of this attitude appear in nearly all the case studies Miller presents, in the actions of would-be reformers who can t quite make reform happen, visionaries who can t reconcile their visions with practical constraints...

... writing from a large section of the canon, and it deprived those who were trying to teach early modern women s writing of what could have been an important teaching tool. Some of these visionary malcontents decided to create their own collection of teach- ing texts, and thus the WWP was born. But what...

... Composing the Learner s Classroom 391 PED 1.2-17 Giuliano 3/27/01 11:53 AM Page 391 in idealized cultural objects produced by writers who are visionary shapers of inscrutable meaning. These old definitions also make reading and writing unteachable. In her essay Salvatore (1996: 447) goes on to describe...

... or almost any- where else I was aware of. In disgust, I snorted and shook visionary thoughts from my head. Show me the money, I mumbled to myself. Wrong response. Ultimately, a good utopian piece does exactly what it needs to do, pulling us back from our usual spaces to know them better, to see the seams...

... on three preconditions: a powerful, visionary director, institutional support of various kinds, and integration with other programs or aspects of the curriculum. I emphasize and reiterate the words power, support, and integration, as they are conditions in and of themselves extremely difficult to secure...

... excluded from literary study — “such works as conduct books, accounts of mystical and visionary experiences, Seaman    Medieval Prime Time  217 saints’ lives and chronicles (just to name a few genres now solidly in the mainstream of M[iddle] E[nglish] studies...

...: money, a sizable turnover in faculty, a strong student body, and an urban location in a vibrant state capital with cultural and political opportunities for students and faculty alike. All that was lacking was visionary leadership. The trustees, most of whom had attended Macal- ester when...