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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"The Divine Comedy"”.
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Dante’s Hidden Sin - Wrath: How Dante Vindictively Used The Inferno Against Contemporaries
… readers on a pilgrimage through what he calls the Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso (ostensibly 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, …
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T.S. Eliot's Paradiso
<p>The Four Quartets of Mr. Eliot have been the subject of many critical studies since their publication in 1943. Among other aspects of them which 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 …
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"The image of Satan in Rumi's ""Mathnawi"", Dante's ""Divine Comedy"" and Milton's ""Paradise Lost"""
"This dissertation is a study of the figure of Satan as a literary type in the works of three major poets of world literature: Rumi (1207-1273), Dante (1265-1321) and Milton (1608-1674). The common ground for comparison is their response to the question of dualism between good and evil. The …
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"And everych cried 'What thing is that?'" : a reading of Chaucer's House of fame
The thesis attempts to show the complexity of the literary challenge which Chaucer undertook in the House of Fame. Firstly, I establish a sense of the tradition of criticism inspired by the poem, and then show the ramifications of the choice of medium. The poem is a "dream vision", a genre which …
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Death and Self-Identity in the Contemporary Fantasies of Philip Pullman, Garth Nix, and Steven Erikson
… 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 with death’s …