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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Divine Comedy"”.
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"The image of Satan in Rumi's ""Mathnawi"", Dante's ""Divine Comedy"" and Milton's ""Paradise Lost"""
… him an interesting subject for study. In the Divine Comedy, Satan is a flat character. He is portrayed as anti-Christ and anti-Godhead. In fact, he seldom appears on stage though his presence can be felt in the entire Inferno. Dante's Satan functions more as a sign; thus, Satan becomes the …
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Dante's Divine Comedy as a theurgic act, a guide for the blessed reader from a state of misery to a state of bliss.
The enduring fascination of Dante’s Divina Commedia has attracted, for centuries, not only scholars of medieval literature, Italian or Renaissance studies, but also scholars of modern cosmology and mathematics who, seeking explanations for their research results, rediscover and find inspiration in …
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#THENEWMYTHOLOGY
… Joseph Campbell, with the mythologies of Dante's Divine Comedy and Buddhism, I have created a structural basis for the exhibition #THENEWMYTHOLOGY. This structure attempts to deconstruct the traditions of contemporary life, focusing on digital interactions mediated primarily through social media …
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Dante’s Hidden Sin - Wrath: How Dante Vindictively Used The Inferno Against Contemporaries
… Hell, Purgatory and Heaven) in his epic poem The Divine Comedy, originally titled Commedia. This paper concentrates exclusively on Dante’s contemporaries, those people who lived during his lifetime, and examines his possible motivation for targeting enemy Ghibellines, Black Guelphs, treacherous …
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"So were I equalled with them in renown": The Politics of Poetic Adaptation in Dante's and Milton's Epics
… narrator to the narrator of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. I found that both Dante’s and Milton’s narrators have a unique relationship to their respective Muses that differs from what can be found in classical epics: Dante replaces the Muse with Beatrice and Virgil —representing Church and …
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T.S. Eliot's Paradiso
… have been analyzed is their relationship to the Divine Comedy of Dante. In particular the influence of the Inferno and Purgatorio has been pointed out by such critics as Mr. J. M. Bradbury, Miss Helen Gardner, Mr. F. 0. Matthiessen, and Mr. Raymond Preston, but that the Paradiso also contributed …
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"And everych cried 'What thing is that?'" : a reading of Chaucer's House of fame
… I briefly examine the divergent positions of the Divine Comedy and the Romance of the Rose, situating Chaucer in the debt of both, but philosophically in the French camp. The House of Fame I see as a "deconstruction" of any position of certainty in rational or mystical epistemology, which marks …
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Dante's Poetics of Absence
This thesis carries out a systematic analysis of absence in Dante Alighieri’s Commedia. In particular, it examines those absences which Dante renders conspicuous, and proposes the importance of the interpretation of conspicuous absence in the poem: a subject which has only ever been examined in …
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Il commento di Benvenuto da Imola a Valerio Massimo. Edizione critica dell’Expositio
The dissertation presents an annotated critical edition of Benvento da Imola's Expositio to the first of Valerius Maximus' books, flanked by a service edition of the recollectae of Benvenuto's Bolognese course (Part II). The Introduction (Part I), in addition to explaining criteria and methods of …
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Death and Self-Identity in the Contemporary Fantasies of Philip Pullman, Garth Nix, and Steven Erikson
Death is inevitable yet inherently unknowable in its experience. The possibility of persistence within death lacks evidence but compels the mind. Through imagined narratives we can conceptualize possible experiences of death and afterlife spaces to address the fears and uncertainties associated …